Lot 82: Kaete Ephraim Marcus (Israeli, 1892-1970) On the shore

On the shore
signed in Hebrew (lower right)
oil on canvas
110 x 90cm (43 5/16 x 35 7/16in).

PROVENANCE:
Sale, Sotheby's Tel Aviv,7 October 1966, lot 9, illustrated

EXHIBITED:
Israel, Art City Hall Holon, Art in the Artist Eye November - December 2000, No. 32, illustrated


Born in Breslau in 1892, Kaete Ephraim Marcus studied initially at Hans Thoma's academy in Karlsruhe and later with Lovis Corinth and Max Beckman. In 1925 she studied with Lhote in Paris and made her first trip to Palestine. The following year she exhibited at the Berlin Academy of Arts. In July of 1933 she left Germany for good and in 1934 settled in Palestine. The brooding yet breezy resonance of the present beach scene bears out assessment of Dr. Karl Schwartz that "each single work of Kaete Ephraim Marcus compels our immediate attention. Her works speak an urgent language which each one of us understands a priori..."

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
K. Schwartz and K. E. Marcus, Kaete Ephraim Marcus (Tel Aviv, 1961) p. 1