Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
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July 19, 2022
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $200
Sold for: $325
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Maftir Yonah, artistic edition, with etchings by Mordechai Beck and calligraphy by David Moss. Rochester, New York: Bet Alpha Editions, 1992. Hebrew.
Copy no. 21 of an edition of 70 copies (twenty additional copies were numbered separately), signed by Beck in the colophon. Stab-sewn paper wrappers.
"The hand-made Abaca paper was especially produced for the edition by Izhar Neumann at the Tut-Neyar Paper Mill, Zichron Ya'akov. The printing of the etchings was executed under the supervision of the artist at the Jerusalem Print Wirkshop by Sidon Rothenberg, who also printed the text on an 1886 Albion handpress. The Print Workshop is under the supervision of Arik Kilemnik."
Enclosed: a loose folded sheet with a short article by Beck, titled "Between Nineveh and Tarshish"; English colophon on verso.
Placed in a fine wooden box, decorated with an illustration of a whale.
[9] ff., 37.5 cm. Good condition.
Copy no. 21 of an edition of 70 copies (twenty additional copies were numbered separately), signed by Beck in the colophon. Stab-sewn paper wrappers.
"The hand-made Abaca paper was especially produced for the edition by Izhar Neumann at the Tut-Neyar Paper Mill, Zichron Ya'akov. The printing of the etchings was executed under the supervision of the artist at the Jerusalem Print Wirkshop by Sidon Rothenberg, who also printed the text on an 1886 Albion handpress. The Print Workshop is under the supervision of Arik Kilemnik."
Enclosed: a loose folded sheet with a short article by Beck, titled "Between Nineveh and Tarshish"; English colophon on verso.
Placed in a fine wooden box, decorated with an illustration of a whale.
[9] ff., 37.5 cm. Good condition.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $500
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
The Alphabet of the Angel Metatron – an Artistic Interpretation of an Ancient Mystical Hebrew Alphabet, by David Moss. New York: Bet Alpha Editions, 2000.
A portfolio comprising 22 serigraph (silk screen) prints by David Moss, hand colored. Each print is dedicated to one of the letters of the so-called "Alphabet of Metatron" – one of the scripts known as "Angelic Scripts" – mystical Hebrew letters associated with the Archangel Metatron, a dominant figure in the literature of Jewish mysticism.
This portfolio was printed in a limited number of copies. The present copy is Number 18 in an edition of 22 numbered copies, each containing two sets of 22 prints in addition to a title page print; each print is numbered and signed in pencil by the artist, David Moss.
Also enclosed is a booklet containing an introduction by Moss, in which he explains the shape and meaning of each one of the letters.
[46] loose plates (including two title page prints), 16.5X18 cm. Good condition.
Booklet: [10] ff., 28 cm. Good condition. Minor stains.
A portfolio comprising 22 serigraph (silk screen) prints by David Moss, hand colored. Each print is dedicated to one of the letters of the so-called "Alphabet of Metatron" – one of the scripts known as "Angelic Scripts" – mystical Hebrew letters associated with the Archangel Metatron, a dominant figure in the literature of Jewish mysticism.
This portfolio was printed in a limited number of copies. The present copy is Number 18 in an edition of 22 numbered copies, each containing two sets of 22 prints in addition to a title page print; each print is numbered and signed in pencil by the artist, David Moss.
Also enclosed is a booklet containing an introduction by Moss, in which he explains the shape and meaning of each one of the letters.
[46] loose plates (including two title page prints), 16.5X18 cm. Good condition.
Booklet: [10] ff., 28 cm. Good condition. Minor stains.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $100
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Eicha, calligraphy by David Moss. Wood engravings by Leonid Gorban. [Berkley]: Bet Alpha, 1997. Hebrew.
A bibliophile edition of the Book of Lamentations (Eicha). The text is accompanied by six wood engravings depicting wooden European synagogues, all burned down by the Germans during the Holocaust. The book is printed on hand-made paper "prepared especially for this book in Maniagni paper mill". Copy no. 21 from an edition of 120 copies. Signed by the artists in the colophon.
[16] leaves, 33.5 cm. Very good condition. Placed in a cardboard slipcase.
A bibliophile edition of the Book of Lamentations (Eicha). The text is accompanied by six wood engravings depicting wooden European synagogues, all burned down by the Germans during the Holocaust. The book is printed on hand-made paper "prepared especially for this book in Maniagni paper mill". Copy no. 21 from an edition of 120 copies. Signed by the artists in the colophon.
[16] leaves, 33.5 cm. Very good condition. Placed in a cardboard slipcase.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $250
Sold for: $938
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The Lamentations of Jeremiah [Eicha]. Wales: Gregynog Press, 1933. English.
Bibliophile edition of the Book of Lamentations (Eicha), with wood engravings by the English artist Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902-1981). Copy no. 61 from an edition of 250 copies; Bound in fine leather boards.
[16] ff., 38.5 cm. Good condition. Inscription on endpaper. Minor wear to binding.
Bibliophile edition of the Book of Lamentations (Eicha), with wood engravings by the English artist Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902-1981). Copy no. 61 from an edition of 250 copies; Bound in fine leather boards.
[16] ff., 38.5 cm. Good condition. Inscription on endpaper. Minor wear to binding.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $100
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Illustrations of the Book of Job, invented and engraved by William Blake. Facsimile of plates published in 1826 (title dated 1825). Paris: Trianon Press, [1967/7.]
Facsimile of "proof" copies of William Blake's engravings to the Book of Job. Loose plates, in a paper folder.
Ptrinted on cover: "This facsimile was produced in a limited edition by Trianon Press in Paris and is offered for sale only in museums and at Blake Trust exhibitions".
[1], 21 plates, approx. 38X30 cm. Good condition. Minor marginal stains. Minor stains and blemishes to cover.
Facsimile of "proof" copies of William Blake's engravings to the Book of Job. Loose plates, in a paper folder.
Ptrinted on cover: "This facsimile was produced in a limited edition by Trianon Press in Paris and is offered for sale only in museums and at Blake Trust exhibitions".
[1], 21 plates, approx. 38X30 cm. Good condition. Minor marginal stains. Minor stains and blemishes to cover.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $250
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Ecclesiastes, or, The Preacher, Copied & Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Paris: Trianon Press, 1967. English.
Collotype and hand-stenciling were used for the reproduction of the manuscript pages and illuminated chapter headings. The illustrations were reproduced in facsimile by a combination of lithography, collotype and hand-stenciling.
Copy X of 14 hors commerce copies (from a total edition of 240 copies). Bound in fine green leather boards; gilt lettering on spine. Fine, matching slipcase. Accompanied by a lithograph, hand-signed by Shahn.
23 pp., 33 cm. Good condition. Spine faded. Blemishes to slipcase.
Collotype and hand-stenciling were used for the reproduction of the manuscript pages and illuminated chapter headings. The illustrations were reproduced in facsimile by a combination of lithography, collotype and hand-stenciling.
Copy X of 14 hors commerce copies (from a total edition of 240 copies). Bound in fine green leather boards; gilt lettering on spine. Fine, matching slipcase. Accompanied by a lithograph, hand-signed by Shahn.
23 pp., 33 cm. Good condition. Spine faded. Blemishes to slipcase.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $250
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Arthur Szyk, two books in limited editions. New York, 1940s.
1. Ink & Blood, a Book of Drawing by Arthur Szyk. New York: The Heritage Press, 1946. English.
The book comprises a series of anti-Nazi caricatures by Szyk, drawn during WWII.
Seventy-four illustrated plates; including six plates in color – four plates represent the four Allied powers in the war, one plate condemns the White Paper policy in Palestine and one plate depicts the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The other plates are printed in sepia tones and comprise sharp political caricatures mostly dealing with Nazi Germany, the Axis powers, and the war against them. Color frontispiece, depicting Szyk at work. Lengthy preface by the writer Burt Struthers.
Elegant copy from a limited edition of 1000 inscribed copies signed by Szyk, leather bound.
[7] ff., 18, [1] pp., [1] f., LXXIV plates, 31 cm. Good condition. Several leaves slightly warped. Blemishes to binding. Slipcase heavily damaged, torn and fragmented.
2. The Book of Job, from the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I with a Preface by Mary Ellen Chase and Illustrations by Arthur Szyk. New York: The Limited Edition Club, 1946. English.
Eight color illustration plates by Szyk. Copy no. 1607 from a limited edition of 1950 copies, signed by Szyk on the colophon leaf. Fine, gilt-decorated, half-leather binding.
148 pp., [1f., 30.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes to binding. Placed in gilt slipcase. Defects to slipcase.
1. Ink & Blood, a Book of Drawing by Arthur Szyk. New York: The Heritage Press, 1946. English.
The book comprises a series of anti-Nazi caricatures by Szyk, drawn during WWII.
Seventy-four illustrated plates; including six plates in color – four plates represent the four Allied powers in the war, one plate condemns the White Paper policy in Palestine and one plate depicts the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The other plates are printed in sepia tones and comprise sharp political caricatures mostly dealing with Nazi Germany, the Axis powers, and the war against them. Color frontispiece, depicting Szyk at work. Lengthy preface by the writer Burt Struthers.
Elegant copy from a limited edition of 1000 inscribed copies signed by Szyk, leather bound.
[7] ff., 18, [1] pp., [1] f., LXXIV plates, 31 cm. Good condition. Several leaves slightly warped. Blemishes to binding. Slipcase heavily damaged, torn and fragmented.
2. The Book of Job, from the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I with a Preface by Mary Ellen Chase and Illustrations by Arthur Szyk. New York: The Limited Edition Club, 1946. English.
Eight color illustration plates by Szyk. Copy no. 1607 from a limited edition of 1950 copies, signed by Szyk on the colophon leaf. Fine, gilt-decorated, half-leather binding.
148 pp., [1f., 30.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes to binding. Placed in gilt slipcase. Defects to slipcase.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $200
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Voyage de la Rue des Écouffes à la Rue des Rosiers [Journey from Écouffes Street to Rosiers Street]. Twenty woodcuts by Gabriel Belot; literary fragments by Raymond Hesse. Paris: Blanchetière, 1923. French. Limited edition.
Joint creation of the French writer Raymond Hesse (1884-1967) and the artist Gabriel Belot (1882-1962), depicting a journey from Écouffes street to Rosiers street in Paris – the quarter of Jewish Eastern European immigrants: the food market, the school, a Jewish wedding, and other scenes. Ends with three woodcuts depicting Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and a text relating to the return of Jews to Palestine.
Copy no. 168 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Inscribed by Raymond Hesse on half-title page.
[44] loose leaves ([24] text leaves and [20] woodcuts). Without cover and slipcase. 32.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and defects (primarily to margins and half-title page).
Joint creation of the French writer Raymond Hesse (1884-1967) and the artist Gabriel Belot (1882-1962), depicting a journey from Écouffes street to Rosiers street in Paris – the quarter of Jewish Eastern European immigrants: the food market, the school, a Jewish wedding, and other scenes. Ends with three woodcuts depicting Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and a text relating to the return of Jews to Palestine.
Copy no. 168 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Inscribed by Raymond Hesse on half-title page.
[44] loose leaves ([24] text leaves and [20] woodcuts). Without cover and slipcase. 32.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and defects (primarily to margins and half-title page).
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $100
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Images de Palestine (Pictures of Palestine), portfolio of engravings by the artist Madeleine Melsonn, with extracts from Chateaubriand's Voyage à Jérusalem. Paris: Published by the artist ("Aux dépens de l'artiste"), printed by Les Fils de Victor Michel, 1948. French.
Twenty engravings: Jewish quarter in Jerusalem, Jewish graves in Silwan, shepherds in Bethlehem, Arab potters, and more. With extracts from the book Voyage à Jérusalem by François-René de Chateaubriand. The engravings are all signed (in pencil) by the artist. Colophon leaf inscribed by the artist.
One of 50 hors commerce copies.
[20] engraved plates + [9] pages (six loose two-page spreads), in original paper wrappers; lacking casing. Approx. 31 cm. Good condition. Some stains and minor blemishes. Tissue guard for each print (with creases and blemishes). Paper wrappers slightly worn.
Twenty engravings: Jewish quarter in Jerusalem, Jewish graves in Silwan, shepherds in Bethlehem, Arab potters, and more. With extracts from the book Voyage à Jérusalem by François-René de Chateaubriand. The engravings are all signed (in pencil) by the artist. Colophon leaf inscribed by the artist.
One of 50 hors commerce copies.
[20] engraved plates + [9] pages (six loose two-page spreads), in original paper wrappers; lacking casing. Approx. 31 cm. Good condition. Some stains and minor blemishes. Tissue guard for each print (with creases and blemishes). Paper wrappers slightly worn.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
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Der Kaiser und Der Architekt, ein Märchen in fünfzig Bildern [The Emperor and the Architect, a Story in Fifty Pictures] by Uriel Birnbaum. Leipzig-Vienna: Thyrsos, 1924. German.
A story about an emperor who is shown a vision of a heavenly city in a dream, and commissions an architect to design a real, earthly city based on this vision. Text in German, accompanied by fifty color illustrations and an illustrated title page, all by Uriel Birnbaum (signed in the plate). At the beginning of the book, a presentation inscription handwritten and signed by Birnbaum, to the art historian Otto Kallir (Nirenstein), dated September 16, 1937, Vienna (German).
[1], 82 pp., [2] ff., 30 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to binding.
A story about an emperor who is shown a vision of a heavenly city in a dream, and commissions an architect to design a real, earthly city based on this vision. Text in German, accompanied by fifty color illustrations and an illustrated title page, all by Uriel Birnbaum (signed in the plate). At the beginning of the book, a presentation inscription handwritten and signed by Birnbaum, to the art historian Otto Kallir (Nirenstein), dated September 16, 1937, Vienna (German).
[1], 82 pp., [2] ff., 30 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to binding.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $700
Sold for: $1,250
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Fischke der Krumme ["Fischke the Lame"] (adapted into Hebrew as "Sefer HaKabtzanim"), portfolio comprising 16 original lithographs by Rahel Szalit-Marcus. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, [1922]. German.
Copy no. 68 out of 100 copies. Lithographs all signed by the artist.
16 lithographs illustrating scenes from the novel "Fischke der Krumme" ["Fischke the Lame"] by Mendele Mocher Sforim. The novel was first published in Yiddish in 1869; over the years, expanded versions of the novel were published, including the Hebrew-language version, titled "Sefer HaKabtzanim" ["Book of the Beggars"].
Copy no. 68 out of 100 numbered copies. Each lithograph has been signed by Szalit-Marcus.
The portfolio comprises a title page, an introduction, and discussions of the depicted scenes from Mendele Mocher Sforim's story by the art historian Julius Elias (1861-1927).
Rahel Szalit-Marcus (1894-1942), Jewish painter and illustrator. Grew up in Lodz, studied art in Munich. Active in Berlin, 1916-33. Associated with Berlin's bohemian circles. She was friendly with such artists as Ludwig Meidner, Jacob Steinhardt, and others, and belonged to the Modernist artists' group known as the "Novembergruppe, " which functioned in the early days of the Weimar Republic and identified with the revolutionary Left. Displayed some of her works at the "Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen" exhibition – alongside Käthe Kollwitz and Julie Wolfthorn – and at exhibitions staged by the "Berlin Secession" movement. In the early 1920s, she began creating illustrations for literary works, including Heinrich Heine's "Hebräische Melodien" ("Hebrew Melodies"), Sholem Aleichem's "Motl Peysi dem Khazns" ("Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son"), Israel Zangwill's "The King of Schnorrers, " Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Crocodile, " and other writings. Rahel was married to the successful stage actor Julius Szalit (1892-1919?).
[6] pp. + 16 lithographs (on separate sheets), in original portfolio. 53X35 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Creases to edges. Minor blemishes to portfolio.
Copy no. 68 out of 100 copies. Lithographs all signed by the artist.
16 lithographs illustrating scenes from the novel "Fischke der Krumme" ["Fischke the Lame"] by Mendele Mocher Sforim. The novel was first published in Yiddish in 1869; over the years, expanded versions of the novel were published, including the Hebrew-language version, titled "Sefer HaKabtzanim" ["Book of the Beggars"].
Copy no. 68 out of 100 numbered copies. Each lithograph has been signed by Szalit-Marcus.
The portfolio comprises a title page, an introduction, and discussions of the depicted scenes from Mendele Mocher Sforim's story by the art historian Julius Elias (1861-1927).
Rahel Szalit-Marcus (1894-1942), Jewish painter and illustrator. Grew up in Lodz, studied art in Munich. Active in Berlin, 1916-33. Associated with Berlin's bohemian circles. She was friendly with such artists as Ludwig Meidner, Jacob Steinhardt, and others, and belonged to the Modernist artists' group known as the "Novembergruppe, " which functioned in the early days of the Weimar Republic and identified with the revolutionary Left. Displayed some of her works at the "Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen" exhibition – alongside Käthe Kollwitz and Julie Wolfthorn – and at exhibitions staged by the "Berlin Secession" movement. In the early 1920s, she began creating illustrations for literary works, including Heinrich Heine's "Hebräische Melodien" ("Hebrew Melodies"), Sholem Aleichem's "Motl Peysi dem Khazns" ("Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son"), Israel Zangwill's "The King of Schnorrers, " Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Crocodile, " and other writings. Rahel was married to the successful stage actor Julius Szalit (1892-1919?).
Rahel Szalit-Marcus fled to Paris when the Nazis came to power in Germany. She was arrested by the authorities in 1942, deported to a concentration camp, and sent from there to the Auschwitz extermination camp where she was murdered. Her "atelier" (studio) in Paris was plundered and destroyed, and many of the wonderful oil paintings and watercolors she created were lost forever.
[6] pp. + 16 lithographs (on separate sheets), in original portfolio. 53X35 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Creases to edges. Minor blemishes to portfolio.
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
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Die 10 Plagen / The 10 Plagues, by Rafaello Busoni. Berlin: Hans Striem, [1920s-1930s?], German, English, and Hebrew.
Ten lithographs depicting the biblical Ten Plagues; each lithograph hand signed in pencil by the artist Rafaello Busoni. (The last work – "The Slaying of the Firstborn – is signed twice.) Illustrated title page and colophon page. Printed in a limited edition of two hundred copies. The present copy is no. 25.
[12] ff. (title page, ten signed prints, and colophon page), 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Notations in pencil in margins. Kept in card portfolio, slightly worn; missing original paper cover.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Ten lithographs depicting the biblical Ten Plagues; each lithograph hand signed in pencil by the artist Rafaello Busoni. (The last work – "The Slaying of the Firstborn – is signed twice.) Illustrated title page and colophon page. Printed in a limited edition of two hundred copies. The present copy is no. 25.
[12] ff. (title page, ten signed prints, and colophon page), 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Notations in pencil in margins. Kept in card portfolio, slightly worn; missing original paper cover.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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