This lithograph by Mane-Katz is titled “Le Tambour” - the Drum. Mane-Katz was aUkrainian artist best known for his depictions of the shtetl - a small Jewish town orvillage in eastern Europe. He moved to Paris when he was 19 to study art and returnedto Russia during the first World War; he exhibited in Petrograd, then returned to theUkraine after the Russian revolution and taught art. In 1921 he returned to Parisbecause there was so much fighting in his hometown during the Russian Revolution,and in Paris again he became friends with Picasso and other important artists and wasaffiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; he was also consideredpart of a group referred to as the Jewish School of Paris. In 1931, his painting TheWailing Wall was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair. Mane-Katz made hisfirst trip to Palestine in 1928 and visited the country annually thereafter. He said hisactual home was Paris, but his spiritual home was Eretz Yisrael - the Land of Israel. Heleft his paintings and extensive personal collection of Jewish ritual art to the city ofHaifa, and four years before his death, the mayor of Haifa provided him with a buildingon Mt. Carmel to house his work; this became the Mane-Katz Museum in Israel. Thelithograph is numbered 73 / 300 in the lower left margin and signed “Mourlot Lith -Marananche Gray” in the image on the lower right. The overall size is 33 x 26 3/4 in.wide and the sight size is 25 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. wide.