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Description: | Signed: yes Description: An elderly man, wearing his prayer shawl is deep in prayer. The title of the painting are words taken from the 'Shema', the most important Jewish prayer which is repeated twice daily. Pilichowski was a painter of Jewish types and genre scenes. He grew up in Lodz and lived for a time in Paris where he studied with Benjamin Constant. He exhibited in Paris, London, New York and Warsaw. This is a study for a large work called Prayer. | Subjects: | figure; religion | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Pilichowski, Leopold (Russian painter, 1869-1933) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9178... | Go to resource |
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