Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Sculpture of a Jewish boy (Yemenite) sitting with folded legs, holding a book. Signed on the side: "Ze'ev Ben Zvi 1929". White ceramic painted black.
Sculptor Ze'ev Ben Zvi (Koyavsky, 1904-1952), Jewish artist born in Poland. In 1920-1923 studied painting in the school of arts in Warsaw. Made aliyah to Eretz Yisrael in 1923 and studied in "Bezalel" until 1925 with the guidance of Boris Schatz. In 1928 went to study in France where he was exposed to cubist art of Picasso and George Braque: in the following years created many realistic portraits (protomes) in a half-cubist style (amongst them Bialik, Tchernichovsky, Dizengof, Shemaryahu Levine, Aharon Meskin and others). Established a sculpting and copper-hammering workshop in the retention camps in Cyprus with the artist Naftali Bezem; since 1949 served as a teacher in "The New Bezalel" (David Palombo was one of his students). His works were exhibited in exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
The sculpture in front of us is of the period prior to his typical cubist creation.
"He totally mastered the material, easily solved problems and shaped the creation, which floated before his eyes since he had a remarkable plastic ability…". (Gavriel Talpir).
Height: 24 cm, maximum width: 34 cm. Good condition. Minor damages.
Sculptor Ze'ev Ben Zvi (Koyavsky, 1904-1952), Jewish artist born in Poland. In 1920-1923 studied painting in the school of arts in Warsaw. Made aliyah to Eretz Yisrael in 1923 and studied in "Bezalel" until 1925 with the guidance of Boris Schatz. In 1928 went to study in France where he was exposed to cubist art of Picasso and George Braque: in the following years created many realistic portraits (protomes) in a half-cubist style (amongst them Bialik, Tchernichovsky, Dizengof, Shemaryahu Levine, Aharon Meskin and others). Established a sculpting and copper-hammering workshop in the retention camps in Cyprus with the artist Naftali Bezem; since 1949 served as a teacher in "The New Bezalel" (David Palombo was one of his students). His works were exhibited in exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
The sculpture in front of us is of the period prior to his typical cubist creation.
"He totally mastered the material, easily solved problems and shaped the creation, which floated before his eyes since he had a remarkable plastic ability…". (Gavriel Talpir).
Height: 24 cm, maximum width: 34 cm. Good condition. Minor damages.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium
Yochanan Simon, illustration of two youths raising the flag of Israel. A water tower and houses on a hill, flying Israeli flags are visible in the background.
21x14.5 cm. Good condition. Lightly stained. Pasted to paper.
21x14.5 cm. Good condition. Lightly stained. Pasted to paper.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $300
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Yochanan Simon, illustration of pruned tree trunk with birds above it. Beneath the illustration: two strips depicting laborers: shepherd, driver, builder and more.
16.5x15 cm.; 2 strips 16x2.5 cm. Good condition. Pasted to paper. Slightly stained and creased.
16.5x15 cm.; 2 strips 16x2.5 cm. Good condition. Pasted to paper. Slightly stained and creased.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,125
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Yochanan Simon, illustration of a man and his son loading a water barrel on to a donkey's back.
17x14 cm. Good condition. Pasted to paper.
17x14 cm. Good condition. Pasted to paper.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
Shmuel Schlesinger, view of Arab village with a mosque-turret. Signed oil painting.
Scene from an Arab village in the Galilee, houses with domed roofs and a mosque turret. Signed in the lower left corner with the artist's signature, Shmuel Schlesinger (1896-1952).
50x40 cm. framed 69x59 cm. Good condition.
Scene from an Arab village in the Galilee, houses with domed roofs and a mosque turret. Signed in the lower left corner with the artist's signature, Shmuel Schlesinger (1896-1952).
50x40 cm. framed 69x59 cm. Good condition.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $120
Sold for: $188
Including buyer's premium
Joseph Bodko, three Jewish figures. Woodcut, signed and dated in pencil, 1922.
19x14 cm., framed 40x33 cm. Good condition.
19x14 cm., framed 40x33 cm. Good condition.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $300
Unsold
An old woman sitting, engraving by Joseph Bodko. Signed in pencil, 1911.
27x23 cm., framed 47.5x46.5 cm. Good condition. Margins lightly stained.
27x23 cm., framed 47.5x46.5 cm. Good condition. Margins lightly stained.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $180
Unsold
Meron Sima and Ya'akov Steinhart, portrait of Meir Dizengoff, 1946. Aquatint etching on thick paper.
Penciled signatures of Sima and Steinhart at the bottom.
29x22.5 cm. Very good condition. Slightly defective on the back.
Penciled signatures of Sima and Steinhart at the bottom.
29x22.5 cm. Very good condition. Slightly defective on the back.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $200
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Ya'akov Steinhart, Jewish characters in the village around a candle. Engraving signed in pencil, dated 1920 and numbered 9/30.
24x19 cm., framed without glass 42x35 cm. Good condition. Much foxing.
24x19 cm., framed without glass 42x35 cm. Good condition. Much foxing.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $200
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium
Ya'akov Steinhart, "the Graveyard". Engraving, pencil signed in Hebrew and English and numbered 14/30.
30x28cm., handsomely framed 47x45 cm. Good condition. Foxing.
30x28cm., handsomely framed 47x45 cm. Good condition. Foxing.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $120
Sold for: $213
Including buyer's premium
Ya'akov Pins, colored woodcut, pencil signed in English and Hebrew, dated 1956.
21.5x11.5 cm., framed 33.5x21 cm. Fair condition. Damp stains and mildew.
21.5x11.5 cm., framed 33.5x21 cm. Fair condition. Damp stains and mildew.
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Auction 11 - Israeli History and Culture
July 27, 2010
Opening: $550
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
7 woodcuts signed in pencil by artist Siegmund Forst and numbered.
Mizrach; Jonah inside the Fish; Hanukkah; the Rabbi's Table; the Rabbi and his Hassidim; MiShenichnass Adar Marbim beSimcha; Death of the Saints. Most are described in pencil.
Forst was born in Vienna in 1904. Studied in Kunstakademie – Arts' Academy of Vienna. In 1939 he left for Hamburg and then continued to the U.S. where he devoted himself to letter-design and calligraphy. He published an illustrated Haggadah for Passover, illustrated a children's book (using his Hebrew name, Asher Forst). Was very involved in the Jewish traditions and festivals. An exhibition of his works was displayed in Yeshiva University in 1997.
See: Siegmund Forst – a Lifetime in Arts and Letters, Yeshiva University Museum Publshing, 1997.
Varying sizes, all in good condition save one, stained.
Mizrach; Jonah inside the Fish; Hanukkah; the Rabbi's Table; the Rabbi and his Hassidim; MiShenichnass Adar Marbim beSimcha; Death of the Saints. Most are described in pencil.
Forst was born in Vienna in 1904. Studied in Kunstakademie – Arts' Academy of Vienna. In 1939 he left for Hamburg and then continued to the U.S. where he devoted himself to letter-design and calligraphy. He published an illustrated Haggadah for Passover, illustrated a children's book (using his Hebrew name, Asher Forst). Was very involved in the Jewish traditions and festivals. An exhibition of his works was displayed in Yeshiva University in 1997.
See: Siegmund Forst – a Lifetime in Arts and Letters, Yeshiva University Museum Publshing, 1997.
Varying sizes, all in good condition save one, stained.
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