Emmanuel Mané-Katz was a French-Ukrainian painter known for his depictions of Jewish life. The artist employed loosely gestural brushstrokes and rich colors in his paintings of rabbis, landscapes, and musicians. Born Mane Leyzerovich Kats on June 17, 1894 in Kremenchuk, Ukraine to an orthodox Jewish family, though his father hoped he would become a rabbi, Mané-Katz moved to Paris in 1913 to attend the École des Beaux-Arts. In France, he befriended Pablo Picasso and Chaim Soutine, while transitioning from a more academic somber style to a brighter more expressive technique. The artist returned Ukraine after the outbreak of World War I, and stayed during the Russian Revolution. Upon returning to Paris in 1921, Mané...