Vegetable Market in the Town Square <br>1940s Oil <br><br>#C8234

Lette Valeska This 1940s oil on paper board is by German-born photographer, painter, and sculptor Lette Valeska (1885-1985). Forty years after her death at the age of ninety-nine, the work of Jewish painter and photographer Lette Valeska is enjoying a long-overdue resurgence. In 2023, the Braunschweig Museum in Germany mounted a major retrospective of her Hollywood photography and published the first comprehensive monograph on her life and art. The following year, her paintings and photographs were featured in Galka Scheyer and The Blue Four, exhibited alongside masterpieces by Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, and Jawlensky. The show also inspired a German television feature film chronicling Valeska’s friendship and collaboration with the pioneering art dealer Galka Scheyer (1889–1945). In 2023, her hometown of Braunschweig honored her with a memorial plaque at the site of her childhood home. As an artist, she worked simply under the name “Valeska.” Professionally trained in photography at