Lot 334
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970) – The Wild Rooster – Pin and Sketches
Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), The Wild Rooster, pin and sketches for it.
Brass, repoussé; pencil on paper.
Round decorative pin, depicting the wild rooster from the legend of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The wild rooster (the hoopoe) is a recurrent motif in Raban's works. See for instance "Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist", pp. 126, 169; "Schatz's Bezalel", item 911. Enclosed with the pin are two sketches for it.
Pin: diameter approx. 4.5 cm. Good condition. Minor bends. Two sketches on one leaf, diameter approx. 4.5 cm each. Good condition. Stains and tears to leaf, not affecting sketches.
Literature:
1. Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
2. Schatz's Bezalel 1906-1929, Catalog Listing of Objects in the Exhibition. Jerusalem: the Israel Museum, 1983.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.
