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Provenance
A painting made by Boris Schatz of his own volition in Warsaw during 1877-1878, and publicized as an authentic portrait of the Rabbi. It was handed by the painter to Channaya Schneersohn of the w:Schneersohn family as a gift, and the former recommended that it be publicized as an authentic rendering copied from an original found in archives. Schatz himself bolstered the claim in a 1898 article he wrote, claiming to have seen the old lost painting. In 1938, his letters revealed the truth posthumously. Chabad spokesmen did not deny this. (Maya Balakirsky Katz, The Visual Culture of Chabad, Cambridge University Press (2010). ISBN9780521191630. pp. 43-46.)
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