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

Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970) and Meir Gur Aryeh (1891-1951) – Collection of Stationery and Visiting Cards

Opening: $100
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium

Collection of visiting cards, stationery from various periods and other paper items from the Industrial Art Studio of Ze'ev Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh. [Jerusalem, ca. 1920s-1950s].
Included: • Approx. 50 blank stationery papers from various periods; some from the joint studio of Gur-Aryeh and Raban and some from the period when the studio was owned exclusively by Raban. Some bear a logo designed by Raban, in a style reminiscent of the old Bezalel; some are more recent, designed in a modernist style. • Trilingual advertisement for the Industrial Art Studio, listing the variety of services the studio is able to provide, in the fields of drawings, sculpture, graphic works, repoussé work, engraving and etching, and architecture. • Approx. 40 copies of Ze'ev Raban's visiting card. • Stationery papers for the personal use of Ze'ev Raban, with his name and address only.

Size and condition vary.
Enclosed: Advertisement for the exhibition: Raban Remembered, Jerusalem's Forgotten Master, held at the Yeshiva University Museum, 1982-1983.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.

Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi