LEOPOLD GOTTLIEB (POLISH 1883-1934) Women at the Market, 1927 oil on canvas 89.7 x 116.2 cm (35 3/8 x 45 3/4 in.) signed and dated lower left PROVENANCE Erich Cohn Collection Thence by descent in the family to the present owner LOT NOTES The present lot comes from the estate of Erich Cohn, a prolific patron and collector of German expressionism. Born in 1890 in Filehne (present-day Poland), Mr. Cohn emigrated to the United States before the outbreak of the Second World War, where in 1937 he became president of the noodle and matzoh manufactory A. Goodman & Sons. Art from the Erich Cohn Collection, especially by Kleinschmidt, Grosz, and Kollwitz, is held at the MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harvard Art Museums and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The collection also included several artworks by Polish-Jewish modernist Leopold Gottlieb, whose works are represented in lots 684-686. Women at the Market, dating to 1927, is illustrative of Gottlieb's mature style, complete with a limited color palette of whites, browns and greens adoped by him in the latter half of the decade. As Women at a Bath (lot 685), this painting demonstrates Gottlieb's interest in scenes of labor and eating, which, in conjunction with biblical narratives, explore the human condition at its most intimate.