Auction 86 - Part I - Rare & Important Items
Zeev Raban (1890-1970) – Scribe – Sketch for a Brass Plaque
Opening: $2,000
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Unsold
Zeev Raban (1890-1970), scribe; sketch for a brass plaque. Jerusalem, [1920s].
Pencil and watercolor on paper. Stamped "Industrial art workshop (formerly Gur Arie and Raban), Bezalel Jerusalem".
The sketch depicts a scribe in oriental garb holding a quill and a scroll of parchment. A gazelle lies under the scribe's chair; the whole scene is set within a pointed, stylized, mihrab-like arched niche, featuring a hanging oil lamp. Two handsome birds, surrounded by vine branches and bunches of grapes, are perched atop the arch.
A silverplate repoussé brass plaque (probably somewhat bigger) based on the sketch was set on a bookshelf designed by Raban. See "Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist", p. 98.
19.5X46 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears, some repaired. Open tears to edges, not affecting sketch. Stains. Fold lines. Matted.
Reference: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001. P. 98.
Pencil and watercolor on paper. Stamped "Industrial art workshop (formerly Gur Arie and Raban), Bezalel Jerusalem".
The sketch depicts a scribe in oriental garb holding a quill and a scroll of parchment. A gazelle lies under the scribe's chair; the whole scene is set within a pointed, stylized, mihrab-like arched niche, featuring a hanging oil lamp. Two handsome birds, surrounded by vine branches and bunches of grapes, are perched atop the arch.
A silverplate repoussé brass plaque (probably somewhat bigger) based on the sketch was set on a bookshelf designed by Raban. See "Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist", p. 98.
19.5X46 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears, some repaired. Open tears to edges, not affecting sketch. Stains. Fold lines. Matted.
Reference: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001. P. 98.
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