Lot 35: q - YOEL TENEH-TANNENBAUM 1889-1973

WOMAN WITH GOAT

WOMAN WITH GOAT

measurements
36 1/4 by 27 3/8 in.

alternate measurements
92 by 69.5 cm.

oil on canvas

Painted in the 1920s

PROVENANCE

The artist's widow
Debel Gallery, Jerusalem
Purchased by the parents of the present owner from the above circa 1980

NOTE

Yoel Teneh-Tannenbaum emigrated to Eretz Israel from Poland and settled first in Jerusalem and later in Kibbutz Tel Yosef where he painted idyllic scenes of kibbutz life in a soft expressionist style. Like his contemporaries Reuven Rubin and Shmuel Schlesinger, Teneh adopted a naive style responding to the classicism of Boris Schatz striving to negate decadent (European) bourgeois culture. His works displayed a "...Gauguin-like primitivism, the local variety rather juvenile, two-dimensional, flat and large. It dispenses with detail, has twisting perspective, and is unswervingly exotic and imbued with a 'Garden of Eden' flavor." (Gideon Ofrat, One Hundred Years of Art in Israel, Canada, 1998, p. 53).