Auction 34 - The Arnie Druck Collections
"Aachen Passover Haggadah" – Zoya Cherkassky - Signed and Numbered Silkscreens
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $2,625
Including buyer's premium
Aachen Passover Haggadah. Writing and illustration: Zoya Cherkassky. Rosenfeld Gallery publishing, Tel-Aviv, 2004.
"Aachen Passover Haggadah", 50 silkscreens. Reproduction of the original Haggadah created by the artist Zoya Cherkassky (b. 1976).
Title page and all of the prints are signed and numbered by Cherkassky: 36/150.
The illustrations of the "Aachen Passover Haggadah" (named after the German city of Aachen on the border with Holland and Belgium) - portray impressive graphic designs in red, black and gold – and are inspired by Jewish images, the Russian Avant-garde and anti-Semitic images. Throughout the Haggadah appear images of birds; their head is a Jewish head wearing a Streimel. These illustrations resemble the ones appearing in the "Birds Heads Haggadah" of the Middle Ages and anti- Semitic illustrations.
The Haggadah was written and illustrated by Cherkassky in 2002 during her stay in Aachen in an artists' exchange program.The Haggadah was exhibited in the Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel-Aviv and was acquired by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. [51] leaves, 40X30 cm. In a cloth covered box, hand-made by the binder Daniel Blum. Very good condition.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.
"Aachen Passover Haggadah", 50 silkscreens. Reproduction of the original Haggadah created by the artist Zoya Cherkassky (b. 1976).
Title page and all of the prints are signed and numbered by Cherkassky: 36/150.
The illustrations of the "Aachen Passover Haggadah" (named after the German city of Aachen on the border with Holland and Belgium) - portray impressive graphic designs in red, black and gold – and are inspired by Jewish images, the Russian Avant-garde and anti-Semitic images. Throughout the Haggadah appear images of birds; their head is a Jewish head wearing a Streimel. These illustrations resemble the ones appearing in the "Birds Heads Haggadah" of the Middle Ages and anti- Semitic illustrations.
The Haggadah was written and illustrated by Cherkassky in 2002 during her stay in Aachen in an artists' exchange program.The Haggadah was exhibited in the Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel-Aviv and was acquired by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. [51] leaves, 40X30 cm. In a cloth covered box, hand-made by the binder Daniel Blum. Very good condition.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.
Artist's Books. Facsimiles. Bibliophilia
Artist's Books. Facsimiles. Bibliophilia