Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
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Rafaello Busoni (1900-1962), "The Ten Plagues" – Signed Lithographs
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
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.
Bookplates, Bibliophile Editions, Prints
Bookplates, Bibliophile Editions, Prints