Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
July 19, 2022
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $200
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches for the Passover Haggadah.
Ink and pencil on paper.
In 1925, Raban worked on a Passover Haggadah (spending a month in Egypt in preparation for his work). The main text was written by a scribe, with Raban adding illustrations, vignettes and decorative initial word panels. He did not however complete the work. Beginning in the 1950s, several editions of the Haggadah with black and white illustrations by Raban were published. In 2005, a color version was published based on Raban's work from 1925, with the addition of later illustrations.
The collection includes: • Various sketches of title pages for the Haggadah. • Sketches for illustrations of the Ten Plagues. • Sketches for the Chad Gadya song. One of the sketches depicts an elderly father carrying a kid, with his young son alongside him; the scene is set in a border of blank medallions. A similar bronze plaque, depicted the same scene surrounded by medallion, was created by Raban ca. 1914 (see: Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 68). Similar illustrations appear in Raban's Passover Haggadah and in Raban's Chad Gadya (published by Bnei Bezalel, 1926). An additional sketch (on tracing paper), likewise depicting a father carrying a kid, accompanied by his son, features the portraits of Herzl and Zvi Hermann Schapira.
Several sketches bear the stamp of Raban's studio.
13 leaves. Size and condition vary.
Literature: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Ink and pencil on paper.
In 1925, Raban worked on a Passover Haggadah (spending a month in Egypt in preparation for his work). The main text was written by a scribe, with Raban adding illustrations, vignettes and decorative initial word panels. He did not however complete the work. Beginning in the 1950s, several editions of the Haggadah with black and white illustrations by Raban were published. In 2005, a color version was published based on Raban's work from 1925, with the addition of later illustrations.
The collection includes: • Various sketches of title pages for the Haggadah. • Sketches for illustrations of the Ten Plagues. • Sketches for the Chad Gadya song. One of the sketches depicts an elderly father carrying a kid, with his young son alongside him; the scene is set in a border of blank medallions. A similar bronze plaque, depicted the same scene surrounded by medallion, was created by Raban ca. 1914 (see: Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 68). Similar illustrations appear in Raban's Passover Haggadah and in Raban's Chad Gadya (published by Bnei Bezalel, 1926). An additional sketch (on tracing paper), likewise depicting a father carrying a kid, accompanied by his son, features the portraits of Herzl and Zvi Hermann Schapira.
Several sketches bear the stamp of Raban's studio.
13 leaves. Size and condition vary.
Literature: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $400
Sold for: $525
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), large collection of sketches for book ornaments, title pages and illustrations.
Some 90 leaves with sketches, most of them unfinished, for book illustrations, title pages, book ornaments and bindings. Included: • Illustrations for the Song of Songs. • Sketches for the binding and illustrations of a Bible edition. • Illustrations for the legends of King Solomon. • Title pages for books such as "MiMartef HaOlam" by Shraga Kadari (published 1936), "Revid HaZahav" (published 1955), "Minchat Erev HaShalem" siddur (published 1956) and "Sefer HaChaim" of the Rothschild Hospital. • And more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Some 90 leaves with sketches, most of them unfinished, for book illustrations, title pages, book ornaments and bindings. Included: • Illustrations for the Song of Songs. • Sketches for the binding and illustrations of a Bible edition. • Illustrations for the legends of King Solomon. • Title pages for books such as "MiMartef HaOlam" by Shraga Kadari (published 1936), "Revid HaZahav" (published 1955), "Minchat Erev HaShalem" siddur (published 1956) and "Sefer HaChaim" of the Rothschild Hospital. • And more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), sketches for two different series of playing cards – Biblical figures and figures from the history of Arabia and Islam. Jerusalem, [ca. 1920].
Ink and pencil on paper and tracing paper. Some leaves stamped "Z. Raban, Industrial Art Studio (Formerly Gur-Aryeh & Raban), Bezalel Jerusalem".
Some 24 leaves with sketches for playing cards. Many of them depict a few figures, and some are two-sided. The cards were published in 1920 in two different series – Biblical figures and figures from the history of Arabia and Islam. among the figures depicte: Saul (?), Jonathan, Bathsheba, Absalom, Solomon, Queen Sheba, Ashmedai, Esther, Harbonah and Judith; Antarah ibn Shaddad, al-Khansāʾ, Harūn al-Rashīd, Rostam, Abū Nuwās, Scheherazade, Khosrow, Hatim al-Tai, Al-Zeir Abu Layla al-Muhalhel Adi ibn Rabia', al-Nu'man. Some sketches show figures not included in the two series of cards published in 1920: Adam and Eve, Rebecca, and others.
24 leaves. Size and condition vary.
Literature: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001. Pp. 129-132.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Ink and pencil on paper and tracing paper. Some leaves stamped "Z. Raban, Industrial Art Studio (Formerly Gur-Aryeh & Raban), Bezalel Jerusalem".
Some 24 leaves with sketches for playing cards. Many of them depict a few figures, and some are two-sided. The cards were published in 1920 in two different series – Biblical figures and figures from the history of Arabia and Islam. among the figures depicte: Saul (?), Jonathan, Bathsheba, Absalom, Solomon, Queen Sheba, Ashmedai, Esther, Harbonah and Judith; Antarah ibn Shaddad, al-Khansāʾ, Harūn al-Rashīd, Rostam, Abū Nuwās, Scheherazade, Khosrow, Hatim al-Tai, Al-Zeir Abu Layla al-Muhalhel Adi ibn Rabia', al-Nu'man. Some sketches show figures not included in the two series of cards published in 1920: Adam and Eve, Rebecca, and others.
24 leaves. Size and condition vary.
Literature: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001. Pp. 129-132.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), large collection of sketches for the signs of the Zodiac.
Ink and pencil on paper.
Approx. 70 leaves, some double-sided, some folded, and many of them comprising numerous sketches. The signs repeat themselves in various versions and styles; some are depicted as silhouettes, a technique usually employed by Raban's partner, Meir Gur Aryeh – thought in Raban's decorative style.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Ink and pencil on paper.
Approx. 70 leaves, some double-sided, some folded, and many of them comprising numerous sketches. The signs repeat themselves in various versions and styles; some are depicted as silhouettes, a technique usually employed by Raban's partner, Meir Gur Aryeh – thought in Raban's decorative style.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches for the symbols of the twelve tribes.
Ink and pencil on paper.
Approx. 100 sketches for symbols of the twelve tribes, in a variety of versions. The symbols of the tribes were incorporated in various works by Raban – in his illustrations to the Song of Songs, in stained glass windows he designed for the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, in ceramics tiles (for instance for the Moshav Zekenim synagogue in Tel Aviv), on the doors of the Bikur Cholim hospital, and more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Ink and pencil on paper.
Approx. 100 sketches for symbols of the twelve tribes, in a variety of versions. The symbols of the tribes were incorporated in various works by Raban – in his illustrations to the Song of Songs, in stained glass windows he designed for the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, in ceramics tiles (for instance for the Moshav Zekenim synagogue in Tel Aviv), on the doors of the Bikur Cholim hospital, and more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $300
Unsold
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches for a bracelet depicting scenes from Isaiah's End of Days prophecy. [Jerusalem, ca. 1920s].
Pencil and ink on paper.
Approx. 20 leaves with sketches for a links bracelet depicting scenes from Isaiah's End of Days prophecy. The sketches show different versions of the scenes. Four of the sketches are for a link showing the text of the prophecy (made for both the Hebrew and English versions of the bracelet).
Among the sketches are two different versions of the scene "and a little child shall lead them". The image which was not chosen for the bracelet was presumably sold by Raban to the Ariel cigarette company (active in the early 1920s; see: Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 104), to be used as a logo – or vice versa.
Enclosed is a leaf with three sketches (pencil, ink and watercolor on paper) for the logo of the Ariel cigarette company, and for the packaging of the company's Samson cigarettes.
Size and condition vary.
Literature: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Pencil and ink on paper.
Approx. 20 leaves with sketches for a links bracelet depicting scenes from Isaiah's End of Days prophecy. The sketches show different versions of the scenes. Four of the sketches are for a link showing the text of the prophecy (made for both the Hebrew and English versions of the bracelet).
Among the sketches are two different versions of the scene "and a little child shall lead them". The image which was not chosen for the bracelet was presumably sold by Raban to the Ariel cigarette company (active in the early 1920s; see: Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 104), to be used as a logo – or vice versa.
Enclosed is a leaf with three sketches (pencil, ink and watercolor on paper) for the logo of the Ariel cigarette company, and for the packaging of the company's Samson cigarettes.
Size and condition vary.
Literature: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $400
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), seven sketches for various Hanukkah lamps, including sketches for the Sharar group and for Zel-Zion.
Pencil, ink and watercolor on paper.
Included: • Sketch for a Hanukkah lamp with a depiction of Aaron the High Priest lighting the menorah on the backplate. Captioned in the corner: "for Sharar". The sketch is similar to the version which was ultimately produced. See: Ze'ev Raban, a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 78 item 82. • Two sketches for an upright Hanukkah lamp decorated with gazelles, for Zel-Zion; one of them with a brief letter from Ze'ev Raban to Zohar Zel-Zion, wner of the company. • Two additional sketches for an upright Hanukkah lamp, very similar to the sketches produced for Zel-Zion, though decorated with lions instead of gazelles. • Color sketch for a Hanukkah lamp decorated with vines, lions and Tablets of the Law, for Zel-Zion, also inscribed with several sentences addressed to Zohar Zel-Zion. See: Lighting the Way to Freedom, item 133; the lamp is not attributed there to Raban. • Sketch for an upright filigree Hanukkah lamp, in the classic Bezalel style. Stamped "Industrial Art Studio M. Gur Aryeh & Z. Raban, Bezalel Jerusalem ".
Size and condition vary.
Enclosed: Sketch for a triptych depicting Matityahu and his five sons. A finished version of the sketch was sold by Tiroche Auction House, auction 168 item 6, and is documented in the Information Center for Israeli Art of the Israel Museum. • Sketch for the inscription on the Memorial Wall for Zvi Kalir at the Beit Zvi school for the Performing Arts established in his memory.
Literature: Aaron Ha'Tell and Yaniv Ben Or, Lighting the Way to Freedom, Treasured Hanukkah Menorahs of Early Israel. Jerusalem and New York: Devora Publishing, 2006.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Pencil, ink and watercolor on paper.
Included: • Sketch for a Hanukkah lamp with a depiction of Aaron the High Priest lighting the menorah on the backplate. Captioned in the corner: "for Sharar". The sketch is similar to the version which was ultimately produced. See: Ze'ev Raban, a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 78 item 82. • Two sketches for an upright Hanukkah lamp decorated with gazelles, for Zel-Zion; one of them with a brief letter from Ze'ev Raban to Zohar Zel-Zion, wner of the company. • Two additional sketches for an upright Hanukkah lamp, very similar to the sketches produced for Zel-Zion, though decorated with lions instead of gazelles. • Color sketch for a Hanukkah lamp decorated with vines, lions and Tablets of the Law, for Zel-Zion, also inscribed with several sentences addressed to Zohar Zel-Zion. See: Lighting the Way to Freedom, item 133; the lamp is not attributed there to Raban. • Sketch for an upright filigree Hanukkah lamp, in the classic Bezalel style. Stamped "Industrial Art Studio M. Gur Aryeh & Z. Raban, Bezalel Jerusalem ".
Size and condition vary.
Enclosed: Sketch for a triptych depicting Matityahu and his five sons. A finished version of the sketch was sold by Tiroche Auction House, auction 168 item 6, and is documented in the Information Center for Israeli Art of the Israel Museum. • Sketch for the inscription on the Memorial Wall for Zvi Kalir at the Beit Zvi school for the Performing Arts established in his memory.
Literature: Aaron Ha'Tell and Yaniv Ben Or, Lighting the Way to Freedom, Treasured Hanukkah Menorahs of Early Israel. Jerusalem and New York: Devora Publishing, 2006.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $700
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches for Jewish ceremonial objects.
Ink and pencil on paper.
Some 25 leaves with sketches for various ceremonial objects, including furniture for the Western Wall plaza, mezuzot, a Torah pointer, Torah finials and a Torah crown, a Torah ark, spice towers, a Seder plate, Hanukkah lamps, ketubot, gate for Midrash HaTalmud Tiferet Avraham (which stands until this day on HaOr St. in Jerusalem), and more
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Ink and pencil on paper.
Some 25 leaves with sketches for various ceremonial objects, including furniture for the Western Wall plaza, mezuzot, a Torah pointer, Torah finials and a Torah crown, a Torah ark, spice towers, a Seder plate, Hanukkah lamps, ketubot, gate for Midrash HaTalmud Tiferet Avraham (which stands until this day on HaOr St. in Jerusalem), and more
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches for Judaica items for the Orthodox Jewish community in Auckland, New Zealand. Jerusalem, 1949.
Ink, pencil and colored pencils on paper.
Sketches for Torah shields and pointers. Included: • Sketch (and carbon copy) for a shield decorated with a lion and vines. Dedicatory inscription on shield (Hebrew): "Dedicated in memory of the communal workers and philanthropists of the Chevra Kaddisha in Auckland". Signed and dated by Raban. • Sketch for a shield decorated with pomegranates, a menorah, Tablets of the Law, a lion and stag. Dedicatory inscription (English): "In Memory of Rabbi Samuel Aaron Goldstein, Minister, Auckland Hebrew Com[munity], President, Auckland Zionist Assoc[iation]". With two sketches for a Torah pointer. Stamped with the inked stamp of Raban's studio. • Sketch (and carbon copy) for a Torah pointer, dedicated to "The Jewish soldiers who gave up their lives in the war against the Nazi enemy, and in the Independence war of Israel 1947-1949"; "designed for the Chevra Kaddisha of Auckland" (Hebrew). Signed and dated by Raban. Stamped with the inked stamp of Raban's studio.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Ink, pencil and colored pencils on paper.
Sketches for Torah shields and pointers. Included: • Sketch (and carbon copy) for a shield decorated with a lion and vines. Dedicatory inscription on shield (Hebrew): "Dedicated in memory of the communal workers and philanthropists of the Chevra Kaddisha in Auckland". Signed and dated by Raban. • Sketch for a shield decorated with pomegranates, a menorah, Tablets of the Law, a lion and stag. Dedicatory inscription (English): "In Memory of Rabbi Samuel Aaron Goldstein, Minister, Auckland Hebrew Com[munity], President, Auckland Zionist Assoc[iation]". With two sketches for a Torah pointer. Stamped with the inked stamp of Raban's studio. • Sketch (and carbon copy) for a Torah pointer, dedicated to "The Jewish soldiers who gave up their lives in the war against the Nazi enemy, and in the Independence war of Israel 1947-1949"; "designed for the Chevra Kaddisha of Auckland" (Hebrew). Signed and dated by Raban. Stamped with the inked stamp of Raban's studio.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $150
Sold for: $300
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), Dove, two sketches for the same work.
Pencil on paper; watercolor and gold paint on paper.
A sketch and a finished work (presumably a sketch for print). The dove is designed as a mosaic, a technique Raban employed at two different periods in his life – in the 1920s, and primarily in his illustrations for the Song of Songs (see Ze'ev Raban, a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 120), and in the 1950s-1960s, for instance in his work Way of Life (1967; see Raban Remembered, p. 87).
14X11 cm. Good condition. Creases, closed tears and open tears to pencil sketch.
Literature:
1. Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
2. Raban Remembered: Jerusalem's Forgotten Master. New York: Yeshiva University, 1982.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Pencil on paper; watercolor and gold paint on paper.
A sketch and a finished work (presumably a sketch for print). The dove is designed as a mosaic, a technique Raban employed at two different periods in his life – in the 1920s, and primarily in his illustrations for the Song of Songs (see Ze'ev Raban, a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 120), and in the 1950s-1960s, for instance in his work Way of Life (1967; see Raban Remembered, p. 87).
14X11 cm. Good condition. Creases, closed tears and open tears to pencil sketch.
Literature:
1. Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
2. Raban Remembered: Jerusalem's Forgotten Master. New York: Yeshiva University, 1982.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), The Wild Rooster, pin and sketches for it.
Brass, repoussé; pencil on paper.
Round decorative pin, depicting the wild rooster from the legend of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The wild rooster (the hoopoe) is a recurrent motif in Raban's works. See for instance "Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist", pp. 126, 169; "Schatz's Bezalel", item 911. Enclosed with the pin are two sketches for it.
Pin: diameter approx. 4.5 cm. Good condition. Minor bends. Two sketches on one leaf, diameter approx. 4.5 cm each. Good condition. Stains and tears to leaf, not affecting sketches.
Literature:
1. Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
2. Schatz's Bezalel 1906-1929, Catalog Listing of Objects in the Exhibition. Jerusalem: the Israel Museum, 1983.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Brass, repoussé; pencil on paper.
Round decorative pin, depicting the wild rooster from the legend of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The wild rooster (the hoopoe) is a recurrent motif in Raban's works. See for instance "Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist", pp. 126, 169; "Schatz's Bezalel", item 911. Enclosed with the pin are two sketches for it.
Pin: diameter approx. 4.5 cm. Good condition. Minor bends. Two sketches on one leaf, diameter approx. 4.5 cm each. Good condition. Stains and tears to leaf, not affecting sketches.
Literature:
1. Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
2. Schatz's Bezalel 1906-1929, Catalog Listing of Objects in the Exhibition. Jerusalem: the Israel Museum, 1983.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
Category
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $150
Sold for: $238
Including buyer's premium
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of metal medallions and sketches of medallions.
• Four leaves with sketches of medallions depicting holy places: the Dome of the Rock,
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the grave of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes. • Six small medallions: three medallions depicting the Dome of the Rock (made after the aforementioned sketches), Rachel's Tomb and the Western Wall, and three identical medallions – the text of the Priestly Blessing within tablets resembling the Tablets of the Law, flanked by lions, with the priestly blessing hands on bottom.
Size varies. Overall good condition.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
• Four leaves with sketches of medallions depicting holy places: the Dome of the Rock,
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the grave of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes. • Six small medallions: three medallions depicting the Dome of the Rock (made after the aforementioned sketches), Rachel's Tomb and the Western Wall, and three identical medallions – the text of the Priestly Blessing within tablets resembling the Tablets of the Law, flanked by lions, with the priestly blessing hands on bottom.
Size varies. Overall good condition.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
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