This Jewish painting was executed in 1930s by Jewish painter Samuel (Sandor) Beregi (1876 Munkacs, now Mukatschewo/Ukraine - 1943 died in a concentration camp). Because the author of this work was born in Munkacs , in these time the center of Hassidic Jews under grounder of this religious sect Grand Rebbe Shlomo Spira, and due to the physiognomie similarity of this portrait to famous images of Slomo Spira, we can assume that the painting depicts this famous rabbi. Beregi, Sándor (Alexander; Welber, Sámuel) - painter in the Carpathian-Ukraine, lived in Munkacs (in 1919-1938 Czechslovakia, now Ukraine), then in Kosice and after 1922 in Uzhgorod. According to the alleged information was killed by the Nazis in the concentration camp.

Works by the artist are in Sgurov (Slovakia), Russian - Orthodox Church! Main Altar; Uzhgorod, Museum of Fine Arts: portrait M.Uriel (Szilvay).

Exhibitions: 1939 Uzhgorod (source: "Carpathian-Ukrainian Artists/1943 Miskolc, Salon Hamossy.

WERKE SACUROV (O-Slowakei), Russ.-orthodoxe Kirche Jungfrau Maria, Hauptaltar: Madonna, Öl, 1927. UZGOROD, Museum of Fine Arts, Portrait of M.Uriel/Szilvay.

Literature: SúpPamSlov III, 1969, 77 s.; G.Osztrovszkij/D. Seleszt (Red.), Mányokitól Aba Novákig, Magyar képzoemuevészet a Szovjetunió múzeumaiban, Bp. 1988, 26, 232 Abb. 227, 229; Nagy " Dictionary of Hungarian Artists " (in Hungarian), Budapest.

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Gallery frame.

Measurements: unframed w 15 3/4" x h 20 3/4" (40 x 52,5 cm), framed w 19 7/8" x h 24 7/8" (50,5 x 63 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.