Emmanuel MANE-KATZ (1894-1962). Two children reading the Torah. Oil on canvas signed upper left (chips and missing parts). Height : 27 cm - Width : 35 cm Note: Emmanuel Mane-Katz is a French painter belonging to the Ecole de Paris, with an expressionist style partly influenced by the Fauves and André Derain. Educated according to the precepts of the Orthodox Jewish religion and with a father who was a synagogue warden, his religion and its traditions were an important source of inspiration in his work, as shown here. Expert appraisal by Brun-Perazzone.