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ISIDOR KAUFMANN (AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN 1853-1921)

A Business Secret


oil on panel
34 x 28.7 cm (13 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
signed lower right Isidor Kaufmann Wien

PLEASE NOTE: This painting will be sold at the end of the auction, no earlier than 5:25 PM (17.25 EST) New York Time, in order to sell after Shabbos ends in New York.

PROVENANCE
Acquired circa 1950 by a Private Collector
Thence by descent in his family until 2006
Sotheby's, New York, April 25, 2006, Lot 97
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

EXHIBITED
Vienna, Judischen Museum der Stadt Wien, Rabbiner, Bocher, Talmudschuler, Bilder des Wiener Malers Isidor Kaufmann, 1853-1921, February 24-May 7, 1995

LITERATURE
Ost und West, Illustrierte Monatsschrift fur modernes Judentum, Berlin, 1903, vol. 3, no. 9, illustrated
Moderne Welt, 1921/22, vol. 3, p. 10, no. 8, illustrated
Heinrich Fuchs, Die osterreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1973, vol. 2, p. 277, illustrated
G. Tobias Natter, Isidor Kaufmann, Vienna, 1995, p. 188, illustrated p. 189

Estimate: $400,000 – $500,000

Result: $455,000 (including premium)

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