Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
The Bezalel Haggadah – New York, 1984 – Color Woodcuts by Maty Grünberg
The Bezalel Haggadah – Passover Festivity, "The Work Maty Grünberg who Drew Seventy Five Illuminations Engraved on Wooden Block…". New York: "Published with the Aid of the Friends of Bezalel Acdemy", 1984. Hebrew.
Copy no. 27 of a limited edition of 150 copies. 75 color plates (woodcuts), hand signed by the artist, placed in a fine half–leather binding.
The preparation of the present Haggadah was an initiative of "The Friends of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design" in New York. The illustrations were inspired by the "Golden Haggadah" (1320, Catalonia), held in the collection of the British Library, which is among the most exquisite illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Middle Ages. To prepare the illustrations, Grünberg was granted a special permission to examine the original manuscript (acquired with the assistance of Bezalel Narkiss). The Haggadah took some five years to complete, and was published in New York in 1984.
[75] plates (woodcuts) + [2] leaves. Approx. 52 cm; box: approx. 55 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, ALE.63.