MANÉ-KATZ, Emmanuel (1894-1962) - On the Bay in New Jersey; 1941. gouache on cardboard 55x70 cm (light frame), signed p. d.: Mané-Katz 41.
Jewish painter, born in Krzemienieczuk, Ukraine, received his first artistic education in Vilnius, then in Kiev, from 1913 in Paris, where he began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts and became friends with Pablo Picasso, his close friends also included Chaim Soutine and Marc Chagall, after the outbreak of World War I he continued his studies in St. Petersburg, in 1916. exhibited his works for the first time at a salon of Jewish artists in Moscow, after the Bolshevik Revolution he went to Berlin and then settled in Paris, where he co-founded the so-called Jewish School of Paris and, more broadly, the École de Paris, being its prominent representative. He spent the years of World War II (1940-1945) in New York and the offered work, framed 70.5x85.5 cm, under glass, dates from this period.
