Lot 54. Maurycy Gottlieb 1856-1879 (Polish). Scene in a Monastery, c. 1877, oil on canvas, 33×24.50 cm, signed on the reverse. Provenance: Estate of the personal collection of Joseph Stieglitz, inherited by a family member.Dr. Rudolf Bares, Krakow The Joseph Stieglitz collection is one of the most venerable and renowned Judaica collections to have survived the Second World War. The antique dealer Joseph Stieglitz (1903-1990), once a purveyor to the royal Palace in Krakow was an avid connoisseur and expert of Judaica and Jewish painting. Sale: Hammersite, February 2011. Bought from the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited: In the Flower of Youth: Maurycy Gottlieb, Tel Aviv Museum and National Museum in Warsaw, 1991. Memorial Exhibition, National Museum, Krakow, 1932.
Literature: Guralnik, Nehama, In the Flower of Youth: Maurycy Gottlieb, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dvir Publishers, 1991, p. 125, no. 31, illustrated in color.Soltysowa, Zofia, Dzieמo Maurycyego Gottlieba, Rocznik Krakowski, 1977, p. 178.

Estimate $10,000 – 12,000. Matsart. 09/14/25

Olej en grisaille Maurycego Gottlieba o porządnej proweniencji oraz historii wystawienniczej włączając Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie jak też historii publikacyjnej w Roczniku Krakowskim.