Auction of Judaica. Including a large offering of Americana from a distinguished Private Collection. Focusing on Jews in the American Civil War, featuring photographs, autograph letters and printed books.
Judaica books and manuscripts (non-Hebraic) are offered next.
This includes two important letters from the United States regarding Edgardo Mortara (Lot 31); an exceptionally rare E.M. Lilien livre-de-artiste (Lot 150); an impressive 18th-century plate-book featuring the Holy Land (Lot 156); a recently discovered illustrated letter by Arthur Szyk (Lot 199).
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The final portion of the auction includes a wide selection of Jewish Graphic Arts, many formerly in the collection of the late Peter Ehrenthal; and Ceremonial Objects from a distinguished four-generation collection.
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LOT 198:
SZYK, ARTHUR.
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Sold for: $3,200
Start price:
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Estimated price :
$4,000 - $6,000
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sales tax: 8.875%
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SZYK, ARTHUR.
“Anger is a Wind which Blows Out the Lamp of the Mind.” (Robert Ingersoll).
GOUACHE, WATERCOLOR AND PEN-AND-INK. Signed and dated by Szyk. Original art composed by Szyk for the October 1946 issue of Coronet Magazine (Chicago).
A portion of the text seemingly stenciled. Framed, hand-colored mat within (possibly created by Szyk himself). 6 x 8 inches.
New Canaan, Conn. 1946.
CORONET MAGAZINE, WITH THE FEATURED ILLUSTRATION GRACING ITS INSIDE FRONT COVER, ACCOMPANIES THE LOT.
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a Polish-born Jewish artist who worked primarily as a book illustrator and political artist throughout his career. Considered the greatest Jewish illustrator of the 20th century, Szyk's work is characterized in its material content by social and political commitment, and in its formal aspect by its rejection of modernism and embrace of the traditions of medieval and renaissance painting, especially illuminated manuscripts from those periods.
Szyk was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Lodz, Poland. From 1921, he lived and created his works mainly in France and Poland, and in 1937 he moved to the United Kingdom. In 1940, he settled permanently in the United States, where he was granted American citizenship in 1948.
Szyk became a renowned artist and book illustrator as early as the interwar period. His works were exhibited and published in Poland, France, the UK, Israel and the USA. He gained broad popularity in the United States after the outbreak of WW2, primarily through political caricatures in which he savaged the policies and personalities of the Axis leaders, becoming one of America’s most celebrated political artists for his powerful artistic and social contributions against fascism.
After the war he devoted himself to Zionist political issues, especially the support of the creation of the state of Israel. Szyk was a committed activist-artist, advocating for religious tolerance and racial equality for minorities, especially for Jews and black Americans.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-99), nicknamed "the Great Agnostic, " was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought. The poet Walt Whitman considered Ingersoll the greatest orator of his time."It should not be surprising that I am drawn to Ingersoll, for he is 'Leaves of Grass'… He lives, embodies, the individuality I preach. I see in [Ingersoll] the noblest specimen – American-flavored – pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding light."
