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The Jewish still life artists who breathed new life into a dying British genre

Still life art was looked down upon in the UK for centuries – this new exhibition celebrates the immigrant artists behind its rebirth

By Susan Gray

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The Shape of Things, an exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, is celebrating the Jewish artists who sparked the renaissance of still life art. (Photo: Joe Low)
Issakhar Ber Ryback, City Shtetl, 1917, oil on canvas, National Art Museum of Ukraine

The art that made Ukraine and the Jewish artists who made it

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Gustav Bauernfeind's Western Wall

The £2 million masterpiece lost in a shul cupboard for 15 years

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