This early to mid-20th-century oil painting by ‘Vincent Le Vaudois’ depicts a still life with an assortment of objects including jugs, bottle, bowl, fruit, tablecloth, basket and newspaper. Produced around 1935, it emerged from a loosely connected community of foreign-born painters known as the ‘School of Paris’.During the early 20th century, the French capital was alive with artistic spirit. As such, painters flocked from all over Europe in search of inspiration. Many of these were Jewish and tended to live together in Montparnasse, which was a hive of cafes, salons and shared ateliers. The Jewish contingent played an important role in the evolution of avant-garde ideas and later heavily influenced art in Israel. Members were numerous but included Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Abraham Mintchin, Georges Kars, Georges Ascher, Marc Chagall, and Moďse Kisling.Anti-semitic sentiment was high during this period and rose during the late 1930s, with the prospect of World War II. In the Summer o...