Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items

Jehudo Epstein (1870-1945)

Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,000
Including buyer's premium
Portrait of a rabbi (most probably, one of the Skole dynasty rebbes [Skole, Ukraine].
Oil on canvas. Signed on lower right corner, and titled: "Skole".
72X59 cm. Framed.
Provenance:
1. Collection of Rabbi Tuvia Eliasch (Gutman), chief cantor of Vienna's Great Synagogue.
2. Collection of Eliasch family, Israel.