Artist: Elnatan, Moshe Hudadad (Israeli 1904 - 1969) (Falafel King)
Title: The Way to Jerusalem
Date: circa 1950
Medium: oil on wood panel
Dimensions: 15.5 x 31 inches
Description: Moshe Hudadad Elnatan ("Falafel King") was born in Persia. He traveled the world and worked as assistant to a street painter in Bombay, India, before arriving in Jerusalem in 1939, a date which appears in some of his "Aliya" (immigration) paintings, even those created in a different period. He settled in Jerusalem with his wife and f ive children, and opened a small Eastern restaurant, "Falafel King." He hung his paintings on the restaurant walls, and sometimes exhibited them in Zion Square.
Signature: signed in Hebrew lower right
Provenance: An Oakland Estate , Purchased in Israel from Engel Gallery, Jerusalem
Frame Type: cove style gold wood
Frame Size: 20 x 35.5 inches

in good condition apart from a diagonal crack at the top right corner running 7.75 inches from side edge to top edge, some inherent drying cracks but otherwise in good condition