Rabbi with Streimel ("Portrait of Zaide") by Anna Sussak, ca. 1930. Oil on canvas portrait depicting an elderly rabbi wearing a streimel, shown in a quiet, introspective pose with downcast eyes and a flowing beard rendered in warm, expressive brushwork. The composition focuses tightly on the head and shoulders, emphasizing character and emotional depth rather than setting, a hallmark of Jewish portraiture of the interwar period.
Signed at lower left Anna Sussak. The reverse of the canvas bears period inscriptions in red, including a Polish-language museum reference noting "Portret ?yda" / "Portrait of Zaide," with dimensions and inventory-style markings, and a label referencing the Warsaw National Museum (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie), suggesting the work was at one time cataloged, exhibited, or formally recorded within an institutional or scholarly context. Also present are additional collection or inventory numbers written on the stretcher and canvas.
Housed in an older carved wooden frame consistent with early 20th-century Central European presentation. Surface shows expected age-related craquelure and wear; frame with scattered handling marks. No conservation attempted.
Estimated Value $200 - 300
Judaica
