Mané-Katz (1894-1962) was born into a religious Jewish family and was therefore much impregnated with Jewish mysticism. Mané-Katz studied art in Kiev and came to Paris in 1913. There he befriended Soutine and Chagall and discovered the works of Rembrandt exhibited in the Louvre museum. He returned to Russia during the First World War and worked for the Russian Ballets.
Back in Paris in 1921, he started to collect many Jewish art objects and took French citizenship in 1927. Two years later he traveled to Palestine to feel the air of the Holy Land.
He exhibited his works in many Salons until 1939 and then sought refuge in the U.S during World War Two. Back again in Paris in 1945, he continued to work intensely producing in a joyful manner hundreds of Rabbinical portraits and Judaic themes as if he wanted to partly fulfil his father's wish to see him become a Rabbi.
His works are now worth between US $ 15,000 and 60,000
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