Mané Katz/Original work illustrating a Geisha... Lot 42

Mané Katz/Original work illustrating a Geisha in kimono. Rare japanese subject for the artist. Watercolor on Japanese paper. Signed + export stamp. Framed in plexi of quality. 70 X 105 cm Emmanuel Mané-Katz (1894-1962) is a French painter of Jewish culture born in Ukraine and died in Tel Aviv. Of expressionist style, he belongs to the School of Paris. The city of Haifa in Israel has dedicated a museum to him on Yefe Nof Street: Mané-Katz had given his paintings and his personal collection of Jewish ethnography to the city. The mayor, Abba Hushi, offered him a place to work on Mount Carmel four years before his death; this became the Mané-Katz Museum.