Oil painting by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Leon Patilon.
Oil on cardboard, signed: Patilon.
The painting depicts a stone bridge over a spring and houses shadowed by trees.
Kabbalist Yehuda Leon Patilon (died Cheshvan 1974) was known as a wonder-worker, and was knowledgeable about Olam HaNeshamot and gilgulim. He earned his livelihood as a painter and was called the "Holy Painter". Rabbi Yehuda Patilon belonged to a kabbalistic group who clandestinely studied together and were named after their professions: "the Shoemaker" - Rabbi Moshe Ya'akov Ravikov, "the Milkman" - Rabbi Chaim Ezra Cohen, "the Floorer" - Rabbi Avraham Fish and "the Street Cleaner" - Rabbi Yosef Waltoch
70X50 cm. Hole, several tears and stains.