Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $200
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Käthe Ephraim-Marcus (1892-1970), Tiberias.
Pastel on paper, signed.
Approx. 40X63 cm. Matted and framed. Good condition.
Pastel on paper, signed.
Approx. 40X63 cm. Matted and framed. Good condition.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), approx. 40 sketches.
Varied techniques. A few are signed and dated. 12 of the sketches are drawn on the leaves of a sketchbook. Some of the leaves bear sketches on both their sides.
Size varies. Some stains.
Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), a leading Hebrew-language poet, author, translator, scholar and literary critic, was also a visual artist. She illustrated several of her own books, including "HaMefuzar Mikfar Azar" ("The Absentminded Fellow"), an adaptation of a Russian story by Samuil Marshak. In the last years of her life, she devoted much of her time to visual art, at first focusing mainly on sketching and later on collage. Her collages were shown in two exhibitions during her lifetime – at the Jerusalem Artists House (1968) and at the Kfar Menachem gallery (1969).
In an interview from 1969, Goldberg said: "The urge to create is the same both in poetry and in painting, but I do not create illustrations of my poetic thoughts. My associations when painting are definitely not literary. […] I need painting to escape from literature to another, more substantive world. Writers are drawn to painting since they are searching for a real existence whose perception is direct. Presumably, this is the reason I escaped to painting, because I hardly write". In the same interview, Goldberg also addressed her occupation with collage: "In collage I have the ambition to take material and use it differently […] I also enjoy cutting the paper, and mounting it, and the fact that I am changing its meaning. In collage, it is easier for me to reach the abstract; I love a good abstract but cannot reach absolute abstraction. Even in my less material poems there is something that is related to figurative art".
See:
1. Leah Goldberg (Hebrew) by Hamutal Bar-Yosef. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2012. pp. 284-287.
2. Light Along the Edge of a Cloud (Hebrew), by Giddon Ticotsky. HaKibbutz HaMeuchad – Sifriyat Poalim, 2011.
Varied techniques. A few are signed and dated. 12 of the sketches are drawn on the leaves of a sketchbook. Some of the leaves bear sketches on both their sides.
Size varies. Some stains.
Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), a leading Hebrew-language poet, author, translator, scholar and literary critic, was also a visual artist. She illustrated several of her own books, including "HaMefuzar Mikfar Azar" ("The Absentminded Fellow"), an adaptation of a Russian story by Samuil Marshak. In the last years of her life, she devoted much of her time to visual art, at first focusing mainly on sketching and later on collage. Her collages were shown in two exhibitions during her lifetime – at the Jerusalem Artists House (1968) and at the Kfar Menachem gallery (1969).
In an interview from 1969, Goldberg said: "The urge to create is the same both in poetry and in painting, but I do not create illustrations of my poetic thoughts. My associations when painting are definitely not literary. […] I need painting to escape from literature to another, more substantive world. Writers are drawn to painting since they are searching for a real existence whose perception is direct. Presumably, this is the reason I escaped to painting, because I hardly write". In the same interview, Goldberg also addressed her occupation with collage: "In collage I have the ambition to take material and use it differently […] I also enjoy cutting the paper, and mounting it, and the fact that I am changing its meaning. In collage, it is easier for me to reach the abstract; I love a good abstract but cannot reach absolute abstraction. Even in my less material poems there is something that is related to figurative art".
See:
1. Leah Goldberg (Hebrew) by Hamutal Bar-Yosef. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2012. pp. 284-287.
2. Light Along the Edge of a Cloud (Hebrew), by Giddon Ticotsky. HaKibbutz HaMeuchad – Sifriyat Poalim, 2011.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $300
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
Leah Godlberg (1911-1970), three drawings.
Varied techniques on paper. All three are signed. One dated, 1965.
Approx. 34X49 cm. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes to margins. Framed.
Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), a leading Hebrew-language poet, author, translator, scholar and literary critic, was also a visual artist. She illustrated several of her own books, including "HaMefuzar Mikfar Azar" ("The Absentminded Fellow"), an adaptation of a Russian story by Samuil Marshak. In the last years of her life, she devoted much of her time to visual art, at first focusing mainly on sketching and later on collage. Her collages were shown in two exhibitions during her lifetime – at the Jerusalem Artists House (1968) and at the Kfar Menachem gallery (1969).
In an interview from 1969, Goldberg said: "The urge to create is the same both in poetry and in painting, but I do not create illustrations of my poetic thoughts. My associations when painting are definitely not literary. […] I need painting to escape from literature to another, more substantive world. Writers are drawn to painting since they are searching for a real existence whose perception is direct. Presumably, this is the reason I escaped to painting, because I hardly write".
See:
1. Leah Goldberg (Hebrew) by Hamutal Bar-Yosef. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2012. pp. 284-287.
2. Light Along the Edge of a Cloud (Hebrew), by Giddon Ticotsky. HaKibbutz HaMeuchad – Sifriyat Poalim, 2011.
Varied techniques on paper. All three are signed. One dated, 1965.
Approx. 34X49 cm. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes to margins. Framed.
Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), a leading Hebrew-language poet, author, translator, scholar and literary critic, was also a visual artist. She illustrated several of her own books, including "HaMefuzar Mikfar Azar" ("The Absentminded Fellow"), an adaptation of a Russian story by Samuil Marshak. In the last years of her life, she devoted much of her time to visual art, at first focusing mainly on sketching and later on collage. Her collages were shown in two exhibitions during her lifetime – at the Jerusalem Artists House (1968) and at the Kfar Menachem gallery (1969).
In an interview from 1969, Goldberg said: "The urge to create is the same both in poetry and in painting, but I do not create illustrations of my poetic thoughts. My associations when painting are definitely not literary. […] I need painting to escape from literature to another, more substantive world. Writers are drawn to painting since they are searching for a real existence whose perception is direct. Presumably, this is the reason I escaped to painting, because I hardly write".
See:
1. Leah Goldberg (Hebrew) by Hamutal Bar-Yosef. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2012. pp. 284-287.
2. Light Along the Edge of a Cloud (Hebrew), by Giddon Ticotsky. HaKibbutz HaMeuchad – Sifriyat Poalim, 2011.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $300
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Four woodcuts by Rudi Lehmann (1903-1977).
1. Camel, 1953.
Woodcut. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. Leaf: approx. 34X29 cm.
2. Donkey, 1953.
Woodcut. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pen. Leaf: 34X28.5 cm.
3. Pig, 1968.
Woodcut on Washi paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. Leaf: 24.5X30.5 cm.
4. Bunny Rabbit, 1968.
Woodcut on Washi paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. Leaf: 22X33 cm.
Good overall condition. Stains. Minor blemishes.
Rudi (Rudolf) Lehmann (1903-1977), a sculptor and printmaker, born in Berlin. Studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, where he met ceramic artists Hedwig Grossman, whom he later married. In 1933, with the Nazi's rise to power, the couple moved to Palestine. Lehmann's work were minimalist in style; he played a pioneering role in modern sculpture in Israel, influencing an entire generation of artists.
1. Camel, 1953.
Woodcut. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. Leaf: approx. 34X29 cm.
2. Donkey, 1953.
Woodcut. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pen. Leaf: 34X28.5 cm.
3. Pig, 1968.
Woodcut on Washi paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. Leaf: 24.5X30.5 cm.
4. Bunny Rabbit, 1968.
Woodcut on Washi paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. Leaf: 22X33 cm.
Good overall condition. Stains. Minor blemishes.
Rudi (Rudolf) Lehmann (1903-1977), a sculptor and printmaker, born in Berlin. Studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, where he met ceramic artists Hedwig Grossman, whom he later married. In 1933, with the Nazi's rise to power, the couple moved to Palestine. Lehmann's work were minimalist in style; he played a pioneering role in modern sculpture in Israel, influencing an entire generation of artists.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Three woodcuts by Rudi Lehmann (1903-1977).
1. Gamecocks, 1958.
Woodcut on thin paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
Leaf: 35X50 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears to edges.
2. A Billy Goat, 1958.
Woodcut. Signed in the plate. Signed and dated in pencil.
Leaf: 49X69 cm. Good condition. Stains, tears and creases, mainly to margins of leaf.
3. A Horse, 1960.
Woodcut. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil.
Leaf: 50X70 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Closed and open tears to edges of leaf, not affecting print.
Rudi (Rudolf) Lehmann (1903-1977), a sculptor and printmaker, born in Berlin. Studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, where he met ceramic artists Hedwig Grossman, whom he later married. In 1933, with the Nazi's rise to power, the couple moved to Palestine. Lehmann's work were minimalist in style; he played a pioneering role in modern sculpture in Israel, influencing an entire generation of artists.
1. Gamecocks, 1958.
Woodcut on thin paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
Leaf: 35X50 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears to edges.
2. A Billy Goat, 1958.
Woodcut. Signed in the plate. Signed and dated in pencil.
Leaf: 49X69 cm. Good condition. Stains, tears and creases, mainly to margins of leaf.
3. A Horse, 1960.
Woodcut. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil.
Leaf: 50X70 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Closed and open tears to edges of leaf, not affecting print.
Rudi (Rudolf) Lehmann (1903-1977), a sculptor and printmaker, born in Berlin. Studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, where he met ceramic artists Hedwig Grossman, whom he later married. In 1933, with the Nazi's rise to power, the couple moved to Palestine. Lehmann's work were minimalist in style; he played a pioneering role in modern sculpture in Israel, influencing an entire generation of artists.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $400
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Collection of prints, print albums, catalogs and reproductions of works by Rudi Lehmann (1903-1977), and additional items related to his work.
Including: • Four original prints by Lehmann, signed in the plate. Three signed by hand. • Six print albums, "printed from originals" (as noted on verso, Hebrew). Haifa: Kerman Press, 1970s. • "R. Lehmann, Woodcuts", an album with 12 prints "from the original woods". Merchavya: Sifriyat Poalim, Art Section, 1959. • Approx. 40 reproductions ("Photocopy of an original using an electronic photocopier") of prints by Lehmann. • Eight catalogs, leaflets and booklets, including: The catalog Rudolf Lehmann, Specimen of his Work (Jerusalem: Tarshish Books, 1953) and the retrospection catalog "Rudi Lehmann 1903-1977" (Tel-Aviv: the Tel Aviv Museum, [1979]). • Five photographs of his sculptures. • A collection of newspaper clippings and two issues of the newspaper "Givatayim" dealing with Lehmann and his work.
Some items are inscribed by Lehmann (German).
Rudi (Rudolf) Lehmann (1903-1977), a sculptor and printmaker, born in Berlin. Studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, where he met ceramic artists Hedwig Grossman, whom he later married. In 1933, with the Nazi's rise to power, the couple moved to Palestine. Lehmann's work were minimalist in style; he played a pioneering role in modern sculpture in Israel, influencing an entire generation of artists.
Size and condition vary.
Including: • Four original prints by Lehmann, signed in the plate. Three signed by hand. • Six print albums, "printed from originals" (as noted on verso, Hebrew). Haifa: Kerman Press, 1970s. • "R. Lehmann, Woodcuts", an album with 12 prints "from the original woods". Merchavya: Sifriyat Poalim, Art Section, 1959. • Approx. 40 reproductions ("Photocopy of an original using an electronic photocopier") of prints by Lehmann. • Eight catalogs, leaflets and booklets, including: The catalog Rudolf Lehmann, Specimen of his Work (Jerusalem: Tarshish Books, 1953) and the retrospection catalog "Rudi Lehmann 1903-1977" (Tel-Aviv: the Tel Aviv Museum, [1979]). • Five photographs of his sculptures. • A collection of newspaper clippings and two issues of the newspaper "Givatayim" dealing with Lehmann and his work.
Some items are inscribed by Lehmann (German).
Rudi (Rudolf) Lehmann (1903-1977), a sculptor and printmaker, born in Berlin. Studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, where he met ceramic artists Hedwig Grossman, whom he later married. In 1933, with the Nazi's rise to power, the couple moved to Palestine. Lehmann's work were minimalist in style; he played a pioneering role in modern sculpture in Israel, influencing an entire generation of artists.
Size and condition vary.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $500
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Sketch for a "Shana Tovah" greeting card by Shalom Sebba (1897-1975), 1949.
Tempera on green paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
The illustration, from a series of biblical illustrations, depicts Abraham in Parashat "Lech Lecha". Inscribed "Happy New Year" in Hebrew and English.
Sketch: approx. 12X10 cm (22X15 cm leaf). Good condition. Stains.
Tempera on green paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
The illustration, from a series of biblical illustrations, depicts Abraham in Parashat "Lech Lecha". Inscribed "Happy New Year" in Hebrew and English.
Sketch: approx. 12X10 cm (22X15 cm leaf). Good condition. Stains.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Sketch for a "Shana Tovah" greeting card by Shalom Sebba (1897-1975), 1952.
Tempera on green paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
The illustration, from a series of biblical illustrations, depicts Jacob struggling with the Angel. Inscribed "Happy New Year" in Hebrew and English.
Sketch: 14X10 cm. (leaf 10X21 cm.). Good condition. Stains.
Tempera on green paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
The illustration, from a series of biblical illustrations, depicts Jacob struggling with the Angel. Inscribed "Happy New Year" in Hebrew and English.
Sketch: 14X10 cm. (leaf 10X21 cm.). Good condition. Stains.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $400
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Four drawings by David Shneur (1905-1988).
Ink and watercolor on card. All four are signed "D. Shneur" (Hebrew).
The drawings (illustrations for a book?) depict children in Palestine – the sea-shore, an orchard, a dirt path in a rural settlement and an empty lot between urban buildings.
Approx. 27X25 cm. Good-fair condition. Blemishes and stains (mainly to margins). Small holes to some corners. Peelings and traces of mounting on verso of one of the drawings. Strip of paper attached top of one drawing (with tape on verso) – addition to the drawing.
Ink and watercolor on card. All four are signed "D. Shneur" (Hebrew).
The drawings (illustrations for a book?) depict children in Palestine – the sea-shore, an orchard, a dirt path in a rural settlement and an empty lot between urban buildings.
Approx. 27X25 cm. Good-fair condition. Blemishes and stains (mainly to margins). Small holes to some corners. Peelings and traces of mounting on verso of one of the drawings. Strip of paper attached top of one drawing (with tape on verso) – addition to the drawing.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Yossi Stern (1923-1992), three paintings.
Gouache on paper. Signed.
The paintings were, presumably, created for a book or a journal; they depict Israeli children on Independence Day and on Hannukah, and riding a camel. Penciled printing instructions on one painting (at the margin).
Average size: approx. 36X29 cm. Good condition. Pieces of tape on edges. Small perforations to edges. Stains on margins and verso.
Gouache on paper. Signed.
The paintings were, presumably, created for a book or a journal; they depict Israeli children on Independence Day and on Hannukah, and riding a camel. Penciled printing instructions on one painting (at the margin).
Average size: approx. 36X29 cm. Good condition. Pieces of tape on edges. Small perforations to edges. Stains on margins and verso.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $1,200
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Naftali Bezem (1924-2918), Lion of Judah / Candle-Lighting.
Oil on canvas. Signed.
40.5X23 cm. Good condition.
Naftali Bezem (1924-2018), born in Essen, Germany, immigrated to Palestine in 1939 with the "Youth Aliyah" and during the years 1943-1946 studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art. His parents, who had remained in Germany, perished in the Holocaust. After graduating from Bezalel, he taught art at the detention camps in Cyprus. Then he lived several years in Paris, and upon his return to Israel, in 1952, worked as an artist of the Kibbutz Movement. Many of his works over the years dealt with the Holocaust, Aliyah and the revival of Israel, examining the Israeli public, social and political spheres. In 1957, he received the Dizengoff Prize, for his painting "In the Courtyard of the Third Temple", which he created in response to the Kafr Qasim massacre. In 1970, he was invited to paint the ceiling mural in the main reception room at the President's Residence, Jerusalem.
"Naftali Bezem was among the generation of Israeli artists whose personality formed during the days of tension and unrest, the pioneering spirit, the striving for political independence, the War of Independence and the days of 'People in a Dream' of the establishment of the state. This is the rock from which he was hewn; this is the foundation of his social persona; this is the secret of his being rooted in the homeland and the layer of society that strives for progress; this is the secret of his devotion to the views of the country and its building. Yet the roots of his soul are deeply embedded in the base of the Jewish environment in the Diaspora, in the home of father and mother, who never got to immigrate to the hoped-for land […] he held on to a series of symbols, which might imply Jewish elements, to trigger associations of the Jewish town and its past life, and to serve as kind of an optical-visual escort for the lament for the Jewish home that was lost. Mute, slaughtered fish, the crying Lion of Judah, the traditional candlesticks and other daily artifacts from the Jewish house and the like appear in most of his pictures – individually or in tandem, implicitly or explicitly; all this to inspire the picture and its observer with an atmosphere of remembrance and lament". (from: Naftali Bezem [Hebrew], by Zvi Zohar. Published by "Sifriyat Poalim", [1966]; enclosed).
Oil on canvas. Signed.
40.5X23 cm. Good condition.
Naftali Bezem (1924-2018), born in Essen, Germany, immigrated to Palestine in 1939 with the "Youth Aliyah" and during the years 1943-1946 studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art. His parents, who had remained in Germany, perished in the Holocaust. After graduating from Bezalel, he taught art at the detention camps in Cyprus. Then he lived several years in Paris, and upon his return to Israel, in 1952, worked as an artist of the Kibbutz Movement. Many of his works over the years dealt with the Holocaust, Aliyah and the revival of Israel, examining the Israeli public, social and political spheres. In 1957, he received the Dizengoff Prize, for his painting "In the Courtyard of the Third Temple", which he created in response to the Kafr Qasim massacre. In 1970, he was invited to paint the ceiling mural in the main reception room at the President's Residence, Jerusalem.
"Naftali Bezem was among the generation of Israeli artists whose personality formed during the days of tension and unrest, the pioneering spirit, the striving for political independence, the War of Independence and the days of 'People in a Dream' of the establishment of the state. This is the rock from which he was hewn; this is the foundation of his social persona; this is the secret of his being rooted in the homeland and the layer of society that strives for progress; this is the secret of his devotion to the views of the country and its building. Yet the roots of his soul are deeply embedded in the base of the Jewish environment in the Diaspora, in the home of father and mother, who never got to immigrate to the hoped-for land […] he held on to a series of symbols, which might imply Jewish elements, to trigger associations of the Jewish town and its past life, and to serve as kind of an optical-visual escort for the lament for the Jewish home that was lost. Mute, slaughtered fish, the crying Lion of Judah, the traditional candlesticks and other daily artifacts from the Jewish house and the like appear in most of his pictures – individually or in tandem, implicitly or explicitly; all this to inspire the picture and its observer with an atmosphere of remembrance and lament". (from: Naftali Bezem [Hebrew], by Zvi Zohar. Published by "Sifriyat Poalim", [1966]; enclosed).
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $500
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Avraham Ofek (1935-1990), DOMUS (Family), 1960.
Graphite on paper. Signed and dated. With a dedication signed by the artist.
34.5X60 cm. Mounted to cardboard and framed. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases.
Graphite on paper. Signed and dated. With a dedication signed by the artist.
34.5X60 cm. Mounted to cardboard and framed. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases.
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