Oil on canvas Signed Coutersigned on the reverse with date 1980 By David Messer (1912-1998) Jewish artist, School of Paris 27 x 35 cm (10" 5/8 x 13" 3/4) David Messer is an Expressionist painter, born in Poland in 1912 In 1929 he immigrated to Palestine In the mid 1950's he moved to Paris