Lot 50
Oil Painting by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Patilon – “the Holy Artist"
Oil painting by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Leon Patilon.
Oil on canvas, (attached to a wooden frame), signed: Patilon.
the painting portrays a figure holding a stick, walking in a snow covered forest, carrying on its back woods for fire.
Kabbalist Yehuda Leon Patilon (died Cheshvan 1974) was known as a wonder-worker, knowledgeable about Olam HaNeshamot and gilgulim. He earned his livelihood as a painter and was called the "Holy Painter". Rabbi Yehuda Patilon belonged to a kabbalistic group who clandestinely studied together and were named after their professions: “the Shoemaker” – Rabbi Moshe Ya'akov Ravikov, “the Milkman” – Rabbi Chaim Ezra Cohen, "the Floorlayer" – Rabbi Avraham Fish and "the Street Cleaner" – Rabbi Yosef Waltoch.
50X70 cm. Minor damages. Flaking and a small tear to upper left corner.
