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.
LOTE 295:
Rafaello Busoni (1900-1962), "The Ten Plagues" – Signed Lithographs
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Rafaello Busoni (1900-1962), "The Ten Plagues" – Signed Lithographs
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.
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