This lithograph by Mane-Katz is titled “Le Tambour” - the Drum. Mane-Katz was a Ukrainian artist best known for his depictions of the shtetl - a small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe. He moved to Paris when he was 19 to study art and returned to Russia during the first World War; he exhibited in Petrograd, then returned to the Ukraine after the Russian revolution and taught art. In 1921 he returned to Paris because there was so much fighting in his hometown during the Russian Revolution, and in Paris again he became friends with Picasso and other important artists and was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; he was also considered part of a group referred to as the Jewish School of Paris. In 1931, his painting The Wailing Wall was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair. Mane-Katz made his first trip to Palestine in 1928 and visited the country annually thereafter. He said his actual home was Paris, but his spiritual home was Eretz Yisrael - the Land of Israel. He left his paintings and extensive personal collection of Jewish ritual art to the city of Haifa, and four years before his death, the mayor of Haifa provided him with a building on Mt. Carmel to house his work; this became the Mane-Katz Museum in Israel. The lithograph is numbered 73 / 300 in the lower left margin and signed “Mourlot Lith - Marananche Gray” in the image on the lower right. The overall size is 33 x 26 3/4 in. wide and the sight size is 25 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. wide.