Lot 220
Ze'ev Raban – a Sketch for a Certificate – Gift to JNF Activists
Ze'ev Raban, sketch for a certificate, "Gift to JNF Activists". Eretz Israel, [ca. 1914-1919]. Ink and watercolor on paper. Signed: "Z. Raban,'Bezalel'".
Inscription and decoration in shades of grey, black and sepia. In the center appear a pioneer and a lady-pioneer on both sides of a palm tree, a Star of David and within it the word "Zion". Inscription: "Gift to JNF activists", "The Hague" and "Jerusalem" [during the second half of the 1910s the main offices of JNF were in The Hague]. Additional illustrations: Tower of David and above it a portrait of Herzl, the Temple Mount (golden dome) and above it a portrait of Zvi Hermann Schapira, a Star of David, Menorah and agricultural work.
Ca. 26X34 cm. Folding marks. Frame: 36.5X43 cm, not examined outside of the frame.
See: Ze'ev Raban, Hebrew Symbolist. Exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2001 (curator:Bat-Sheva Goldman Ida), pictures 118.1, 118.2.
