Lot #102 - Arnold Lakhovsky, 1880-1937 (Ukraine/France/USA)
Arnold Lakhovsky, 1880-1937 (Ukraine/France/USA)
Estimate: 4 000 - 8 000 £
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Lot Description
Arnold Borisovich Lakhovsky (1880-1937), Ukraine/Russia/Germany/France/USA.
Portrait of Alexander Mukdoni-Kappel. 1920-30s.
Oil on canvas, size 71 x 61 cm (28 x 24 inches), frame dimensions 85 x 75 cm (33 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches)
Signed lower left.
MUKDONI, A. (pseudonym of Alexander Kappel, 1877-1958, Yiddish essayist, and theatre critic. Born in Lyakhovichi, Belorussia, he began his literary career in Warsaw in 1906, specializing in theatre criticism and publishing widely in Yiddish journals in Poland, Russia, and the U.S. Before earning a doctorate in labour law from the University of Bern, Switzerland, he studied in yeshivah and a Russian high school. After World War i, he edited the Kovno daily Nayes, before immigrating to the U.S. in 1922. There he joined the daily Morgn-Zhurnal as literary and theatre critic. He published Ertseylungen un Skitsn (“Stories and Sketches”, 1911), and Y.L. Perets un dos Yidishe Teater (“I.L. Peretz and the Yiddish Theatre”, 1949) in addition to four volumes of memoirs: Mayne Bagegenishn (“My Encounters”, 1949-55). He published his best critical essays in the volume Teater (“Theater”, 1927), which includes keen observations on the Yiddish theatre and Yiddish actors.
Portrait of Alexander Mukdoni-Kappel. 1920-30s.
Oil on canvas, size 71 x 61 cm (28 x 24 inches), frame dimensions 85 x 75 cm (33 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches)
Signed lower left.
MUKDONI, A. (pseudonym of Alexander Kappel, 1877-1958, Yiddish essayist, and theatre critic. Born in Lyakhovichi, Belorussia, he began his literary career in Warsaw in 1906, specializing in theatre criticism and publishing widely in Yiddish journals in Poland, Russia, and the U.S. Before earning a doctorate in labour law from the University of Bern, Switzerland, he studied in yeshivah and a Russian high school. After World War i, he edited the Kovno daily Nayes, before immigrating to the U.S. in 1922. There he joined the daily Morgn-Zhurnal as literary and theatre critic. He published Ertseylungen un Skitsn (“Stories and Sketches”, 1911), and Y.L. Perets un dos Yidishe Teater (“I.L. Peretz and the Yiddish Theatre”, 1949) in addition to four volumes of memoirs: Mayne Bagegenishn (“My Encounters”, 1949-55). He published his best critical essays in the volume Teater (“Theater”, 1927), which includes keen observations on the Yiddish theatre and Yiddish actors.
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