The present catalogue includes an extensive chapter dedicated to Bezalel artists, including illustrated books, various objects, drawing and paintings. This chapter features numerous original sketches for works by Ze'ev Raban - Raban's sketchbook (lot 318), sketches for illustrations to the Song of Songs (lot 320), sketches of the signs of the Zodiac (lot 327), a large collection of photographs of works by Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh (lot 344), and many other unique items from the estate of Shlomo Kedmi, who succeeded Raban and Gur Aryeh in the Industrial Art Studio.
The chapter dedicated to Hebrew children's books features charming works by prominent writers and illustrators: stories by Benzion Raskin illustrated by Uriel Kahana, Chaim Hanft and Haim Goldberg; poems by Itzhak Katzenelson illustrated by Gertrud Caspari; rhymes by Ya'akov David Kamson illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor; children's book published by "Omanut", with color lithograph illustrations by "Chavurat Tsayarim" (Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov and Higer); pop-up books illustrated by David Gilboa; and other rare books.
The avant-garde chapter features Yiiddish, Hebrew and Russian books, with illustrations and cover-designs by important Russian avant-garde artists such as El Lissitzky, Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and Nathan Altman.
The catalogue further features a variety of choice items representing the history of Palestine and Zionism, bibliophile works, letters, travelogues and maps of Palestine, photographs, postcards, rare Ladino periodicals, works by Safed-based artist Yosef Zvi Geiger, bibliophile works, a chapter dedicated to numismatics, and many more items.
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LOTE 324:
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970) – Collection of Sketches – Passover Haggadah / Chad Gadya
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Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970) – Collection of Sketches – Passover Haggadah / Chad Gadya
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.
