Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $800
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"Oniyot Ivriyot LeNamal Ivri" [Hebrew: Hebrew Ships for a Hebrew Port], illustrated poster in honor of "Sea Day", on behalf of the "Hevel Yami Le'Israel" (association for marine training). "Signon" press, Tel Aviv, [ca. 1946]. Design: Franz Kraus (signed in the plate).
Illustration of a large anchor, incorporated with the flag of the "Hevel Yami Le'Israel", with ships at sea in the background.
70X50 cm. Fair-good condition. Folding marks and creases. Foxing. Tears to margins (multiple tears to left margins), with adhesive tape for reinforcement to several places. A number of open tears, with slight damage to illustration, reinforced with adhesive tape (paper substitutions glued on two of the tears).
Illustration of a large anchor, incorporated with the flag of the "Hevel Yami Le'Israel", with ships at sea in the background.
70X50 cm. Fair-good condition. Folding marks and creases. Foxing. Tears to margins (multiple tears to left margins), with adhesive tape for reinforcement to several places. A number of open tears, with slight damage to illustration, reinforced with adhesive tape (paper substitutions glued on two of the tears).
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $1,200
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"Zechor et Yom Ha'Atzir veHa'Assir" [Hebrew: Remember the Prisoner's and Detainee's Day], an illustrated poster on behalf of "LeAsirenu" Association. "Aviva" lithographic printing, Tel-Aviv, [probably, 1947]. Design: Shamir Brothers (signed in the plate).
Illustration in color, portraying a man behind a barbed wire fence. The poster calls to mark the "Prisoner's and Detainee's Day" on Tamuz 11, and join the association "La'Asirenu" - an association founded by the Jewish National Council and was acting for Jewish prisoners and detainees during the last years of the British Mandate in Palestine (among other operations, the association acted to return to Palestine the Etzel and Lehi exiles).
68X48.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Some stains. Some holes and small tears. Slightly trimmed at the bottom margin, slightly affecting the printer information.
Illustration in color, portraying a man behind a barbed wire fence. The poster calls to mark the "Prisoner's and Detainee's Day" on Tamuz 11, and join the association "La'Asirenu" - an association founded by the Jewish National Council and was acting for Jewish prisoners and detainees during the last years of the British Mandate in Palestine (among other operations, the association acted to return to Palestine the Etzel and Lehi exiles).
68X48.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Some stains. Some holes and small tears. Slightly trimmed at the bottom margin, slightly affecting the printer information.
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
"Hachraza El Kol Toshvei Medinat Israel" [Hebrew: Declaration to All Residents of the State of Israel], poster on behalf of the Provisional Government. "HaPoel HaTza'ir" cooperative press, Tel Aviv, May 14, 1948.?The first poster printed on behalf of the Provisional Government.
The poster calls on the state's residents to enlist and protect their homeland and its well-being: "In a time of a supreme ordeal, a time of a malicious attack by enemies, the Provisional Government takes the rule of Israel into its hands"; "We have been thrust into a cruel war. But let us remember: within the confines of our state, citizens of Arab origin will continue to live - and for many of them this war will be abhorrent. We are obliged to protect their rights, their equal civil rights. We seek peace. Our hands are extended to them in partnership to build our homeland. Citizens! Let us protect the honor of our young state. Each one of us maintains it with his behavior, his pure standing and his clean hands. Each one of us guarantees its safety and future".
Approx. 61.5X94 cm. Framed. Fair condition. Folding marks and creases. Many stains. Tears, some affecting text. Unexamined out of frame.
The poster calls on the state's residents to enlist and protect their homeland and its well-being: "In a time of a supreme ordeal, a time of a malicious attack by enemies, the Provisional Government takes the rule of Israel into its hands"; "We have been thrust into a cruel war. But let us remember: within the confines of our state, citizens of Arab origin will continue to live - and for many of them this war will be abhorrent. We are obliged to protect their rights, their equal civil rights. We seek peace. Our hands are extended to them in partnership to build our homeland. Citizens! Let us protect the honor of our young state. Each one of us maintains it with his behavior, his pure standing and his clean hands. Each one of us guarantees its safety and future".
Approx. 61.5X94 cm. Framed. Fair condition. Folding marks and creases. Many stains. Tears, some affecting text. Unexamined out of frame.
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $6,875
Including buyer's premium
The Seven Days of Creation, a series of original drawings by Ze'ev Raban, for memorial candle plaques. [ca. 1927].
Ink and watercolor on paper. Signed with the studio stamp, "Ze'ev Raban, Workshop for Industrial Art (formerly Gur-Aryeh and Raban), Bezalel, Jerusalem". Markings and handwritten comments on some of the drawings.
Eight colorful drawings depicting the Seven Days of Creation (two different drawings for the Sixth Day). Two of the drawings are on tracing paper.
These drawings were used to prepare brass plaques decorating a memorial candle designed by Ze'ev Raban (today at the Short Hills community, New Jersey. See image).
6 leaves (two of the leaves contain two drawings per leaf, one on each side). Drawings approx. 21.5X7.5 cm; leaves 25X10 cm to 13X24 cm. Each leaf attached to passe-partout. Condition varies. Stains. Creases and a number of small tears. Open tears, repaired, to margins of some of the leaves (without damage to drawings).
See: Ze'ev Raban, A Hebrew Symbolist. Exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2001 (curator: Batsheva Goldman Ida), pp. 154-155; no. 210.1 (photographed).
Ink and watercolor on paper. Signed with the studio stamp, "Ze'ev Raban, Workshop for Industrial Art (formerly Gur-Aryeh and Raban), Bezalel, Jerusalem". Markings and handwritten comments on some of the drawings.
Eight colorful drawings depicting the Seven Days of Creation (two different drawings for the Sixth Day). Two of the drawings are on tracing paper.
These drawings were used to prepare brass plaques decorating a memorial candle designed by Ze'ev Raban (today at the Short Hills community, New Jersey. See image).
6 leaves (two of the leaves contain two drawings per leaf, one on each side). Drawings approx. 21.5X7.5 cm; leaves 25X10 cm to 13X24 cm. Each leaf attached to passe-partout. Condition varies. Stains. Creases and a number of small tears. Open tears, repaired, to margins of some of the leaves (without damage to drawings).
See: Ze'ev Raban, A Hebrew Symbolist. Exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2001 (curator: Batsheva Goldman Ida), pp. 154-155; no. 210.1 (photographed).
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $800
Sold for: $4,500
Including buyer's premium
"The Independence Hanukkah Lamp", two original drawings by Ze'ev Raban for a Hanukkah lamp produced by the Pal-Bell company. [ca. 1950].
Pencil and ink on paper. Stamped with the studio stamp, "Ze'ev Raban, Workshop for Industrial Art (formerly Gur-Aryeh and Raban), Bezalel, Jerusalem". Markings or handwritten comments on both drawings.
1. Drawing for the lamp's façade. A triptych composed of depictions of the Maccabees' battles and the lighting of the Temple menorah.
Drawing: approx. 7X23 cm (leaf: approx. 14X31 cm). Attached to passe-partout. Good-fair condition. Folding marks, creases and slight defects. Stains (including light stains to drawing).
2. Drawing for lamp's reverse. In the center is the emblem of the State of Israel, alongside two figures: a soldier and a female pioneer, seated, with the national institutions and the Hebrew University buildings behind them. On the top margins, on the left and right, are excerpts from Israel's Declaration of Independence.
Drawing: approx. 8.5X27.5 cm (leaf: 11.5X32.5 cm). Attached to passe-partout. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Stains and slight defects to leaf margins.
See: Ze'ev Raban, A Hebrew Symbolist. Exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2001 (curator: Batsheva Goldman Ida), p. 180; nos. 234-235 (photographed).
Pencil and ink on paper. Stamped with the studio stamp, "Ze'ev Raban, Workshop for Industrial Art (formerly Gur-Aryeh and Raban), Bezalel, Jerusalem". Markings or handwritten comments on both drawings.
1. Drawing for the lamp's façade. A triptych composed of depictions of the Maccabees' battles and the lighting of the Temple menorah.
Drawing: approx. 7X23 cm (leaf: approx. 14X31 cm). Attached to passe-partout. Good-fair condition. Folding marks, creases and slight defects. Stains (including light stains to drawing).
2. Drawing for lamp's reverse. In the center is the emblem of the State of Israel, alongside two figures: a soldier and a female pioneer, seated, with the national institutions and the Hebrew University buildings behind them. On the top margins, on the left and right, are excerpts from Israel's Declaration of Independence.
Drawing: approx. 8.5X27.5 cm (leaf: 11.5X32.5 cm). Attached to passe-partout. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Stains and slight defects to leaf margins.
See: Ze'ev Raban, A Hebrew Symbolist. Exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2001 (curator: Batsheva Goldman Ida), p. 180; nos. 234-235 (photographed).
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Self-portrait with hat, [1910]. Etching by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925).
Initialed in the plate.
Approx. 32.5X28 cm (leaf: 52.5X41 cm). Inserted in passe-partout (three pieces of acidic adhesive tape to upper margins). Good condition. Rubbing and peeling to leaf's upper corners.
Provenance: estate of Otto Lilien.
Initialed in the plate.
Approx. 32.5X28 cm (leaf: 52.5X41 cm). Inserted in passe-partout (three pieces of acidic adhesive tape to upper margins). Good condition. Rubbing and peeling to leaf's upper corners.
Provenance: estate of Otto Lilien.
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $4,750
Including buyer's premium
Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, [1915]. Etching by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925).
Signed in the plate and in pencil.
Approx. 43X51 cm (leaf: 52.5X65.5 cm). Inserted in passe-partout (attached with three pieces of acidic adhesive tape to top margins). Good condition. Some light stains to leaf (the etching is clean). Numeration in pen on leaf margins.
Provenance: estate of Otto Lilien.
Signed in the plate and in pencil.
Approx. 43X51 cm (leaf: 52.5X65.5 cm). Inserted in passe-partout (attached with three pieces of acidic adhesive tape to top margins). Good condition. Some light stains to leaf (the etching is clean). Numeration in pen on leaf margins.
Provenance: estate of Otto Lilien.
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
Jerusalem, view from the city, [1915]. Etching by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925).
Signed in pencil.
Approx. 43X51 cm (leaf: 52.5X65.5 cm). Inserted in passe-partout. Good condition. Slight creases and some light stains to leaf (etching is clean).
Provenance: estate of Otto Lilien.
Signed in pencil.
Approx. 43X51 cm (leaf: 52.5X65.5 cm). Inserted in passe-partout. Good condition. Slight creases and some light stains to leaf (etching is clean).
Provenance: estate of Otto Lilien.
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $1,500
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Landscape.
Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Signed.
Approx. 49X34 cm, framed. Slight defects and color flaking in several places.
Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Signed.
Approx. 49X34 cm, framed. Slight defects and color flaking in several places.
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Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
October 31, 2017
Opening: $1,500
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Two girls and a dog.
Mixed media on paper. Signed on lower right corner.
Leaf approx. 35X26 cm. Paper dark at margins (around the painting), as a result of framing.
Mixed media on paper. Signed on lower right corner.
Leaf approx. 35X26 cm. Paper dark at margins (around the painting), as a result of framing.
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