Lot 329
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970) – Sketches for a Bracelet – Isaiah's End of Days Prophecy
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches for a bracelet depicting scenes from Isaiah's End of Days prophecy. [Jerusalem, ca. 1920s].
Pencil and ink on paper.
Approx. 20 leaves with sketches for a links bracelet depicting scenes from Isaiah's End of Days prophecy. The sketches show different versions of the scenes. Four of the sketches are for a link showing the text of the prophecy (made for both the Hebrew and English versions of the bracelet).
Among the sketches are two different versions of the scene "and a little child shall lead them". The image which was not chosen for the bracelet was presumably sold by Raban to the Ariel cigarette company (active in the early 1920s; see: Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 104), to be used as a logo – or vice versa.
Enclosed is a leaf with three sketches (pencil, ink and watercolor on paper) for the logo of the Ariel cigarette company, and for the packaging of the company's Samson cigarettes.
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.
