Mane Katz Paintings
American, 1894-1962
Emmanuel Mané-Katz was a prominent modernist in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century. He studied at the Beaux Arts Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. After his extensive travels through Europe (catalyzed by World War I), Mané-Katz eventually settled in Paris, where he befriended Pablo Picasso and other fellow modernists. Many of Mané-Katz’s paintings have deep religious significance and origins, often picturing rabbis, Jewish students, and other Hassidic personas. Such paintings of Jewish folklore are often compared to Marc Chagall’s religiously-influenced art practice. He continued his travels to places like Israel, Palestine, Brazil, and Japan throughout the rest of his life, maintaining adherence to religious themes and portraiture in his art.
The Mané-Katz Museum is located on Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel, and his work is part of the permanent collections of the Tate, the MOMA, and the Museum of Art at Ein Harod in Israel. After his death, Mané-Katz donated much of his art to Haifa, Israel, where his home was. His participation in the School of Paris alongside modernists like Picasso, Chagall, and Soutine solidified him as an influential modernist painter in the early twentieth century.to
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Artist: Mane Katz
Rabbis
By Mane Katz
Located in New York, NY
MANE-KATZ
RABBIS, c. 1935
Oil on canvas
18 H. x 14 W. 1/2 in. (45.5 x 35.8 cm.)
Signed
PROVENANCE
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Christies, New York, November 04, 1982. Lot 177: $11,000
Private Collection, New Jersey, 1982-2021
Estate of the above, 2021.
Raised in an orthodox Jewish family in Russia, Mane-Katz was born in the Ukraine and became an early 20th-century artist, known especially for portraits and paintings with Jewish themes. From childhood, he had been influenced by stories of Jewish mysticism, which was reflected in his paintings.
He had a peripatetic life between Russia, France, Israel, and America. He first studied art in Kiev at the Beaux Arts Academy, and in 1913, went to Paris where he associated with Chaim Soutine and Marc Chagall and continued his art studies there at the Beaux Arts Academy.
During World War I, he tried to join the Foreign Legion but was rejected because he was too short. He went back in Russia again, this time joining the Soviet Revolution but rejected the cause because he was so horrified by Josef Stalin. He worked briefly for the Russian ballets, and in 1921, he returned to Paris where in 1927 he took French citizenship. For the next twelve years, he traveled widely, showing his art work and doing many paintings.
In 1939, as World War II was breaking out, he was drafted by the French and then was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and went to the United States and remained there until 1945, exhibiting his paintings at Katia Granoff Gallery and Wildenstein Gallery. After the war, he returned to Paris where he had exhibited in the Salons. In Paris to the end of his career, he worked happily, painting hundreds of portraits of rabbis...
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Mane Katz Paintings
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$12,500
The Flower Cart - Expressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Mane-Katz
By Mane Katz
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas expressionist portrait circa 1935 by Litvak painter Mane-Katz. The piece depicts a cart filled with brightly coloured flowers of red, orange, yellow and blue blo...
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Praying Jew - Russian Art Ukrainian Jewish
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
This original painting is signed in pencil by the artist "Mane Katz" in the lower left corner.
Condition: Very good condition. Some waves on the paper, especially on the upper side ...
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20th Century Other Art Style Mane Katz Paintings
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Abstract Landscape with Palm Tree Judaica Gouache Painting
By Mane Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Mane-Katz (1894-1962) Landscape with palm tree. Gouache on paper, signed lower right. Dimensions: (Frame) H 37.5" x W 31", (Sight) H 24.5" x W 18"
Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew:מאנה כ...
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Materials
Gouache
Flowers - Russian Art Judaica
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
This painting is hand signed in oil by the artist "Mane-Katz" in the lower right corner.
It was probably painted in the 1950's.
Provenance: Christie's, London, 3rd December 1999, lo...
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Materials
Oil
Vase of Flowers
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
MANE KATZ [Katz Emmanuel] 1894-1962
Kremenchug, Ukraine 1894-1962 Tel Aviv (Russian / Ukrainian / French / Israeli)
Title: Vase of Flowers
Tech...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Mane Katz Paintings
Materials
Oil
$24,200
Fishermen by the Boats - Maritime Seaside Coastal
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
MANE KATZ [Katz Emmanuel] 1894-1962
Kremenchug, Ukraine 1894-1962 Tel Aviv (Russian / Ukrainian / French / Israeli)
Title: Fishermen by the Boats, circa 1941
Techinique: Original Signed Oil Painting on Canvas
Size: 51 x 61 cm / 20.1 x 24 in
Additional Information: The work is signed "Mane Katz" on the right hand side.
This work was painted circa 1941.
Provenance:
Graham Gallery...
Category
1940s Expressionist Mane Katz Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Mane-Katz (1894-1962) was a Litvak painter born in Ukraine best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew:מאנה כץ), born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962), was a Litvak painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Particularly music figures and Jewish wedding scenes.
Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibiting in Petrograd; following the October revolution, he traveled back to Kremenchuk, where he taught art. In 1921, due to the ongoing fighting in his hometown during the civil war, he moved once again to Paris. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important French artists, and was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu, he is sometimes considered to be part of a group referred to specifically as the Jewish School of Paris. Includes Russian, Ukrainian and Polish painters Jankel Adler, Arbit Blatas, Marc Chagall, Jacques Chapiro, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Sigmund Menkes, Jules Pascin, Issachar Ryback, Jacques Lipchitz,Chana Orloff, and Ossip Zadkine. Ecole de Paris
In 1931, Mane-Katz's painting The Wailing Wall was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair. Early on, his style was classical and somber, but his palette changed in later years to bright, primary colors, with an emphasis on Jewish themes. His oils feature Judaic Hasidic characters, rabbis, Jewish musicians, beggars, yeshiva students and scenes from the East European shtetl made famous in the west by Sholem Aleichem and Tevye.
Mane-Katz made his first trip to Mandate Palestine in 1928, and thereafter visited the country annually. He said his actual home was Paris, but his spiritual home was Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. In 1939, as World War II was breaking out, he was drafted by the French and then was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and went to the United States and remained there until 1945, exhibiting his paintings at Katia Granoff Gallery and Wildenstein Gallery. After the war, he returned to Paris where he had exhibited in the Salons. In Paris to the end of his career, he worked happily, painting hundreds of portraits of rabbis...
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