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Lot 389

Ze'ev Raban – Sketch for "The Golden Peacock"

Ze'ev Raban, sketch for the drawing "Golden Peacock". Marked with studio's stamp: "Ze'ev Raban, workshop for industrial art (former Gur-Aryeh and Raban), Bezalel, Yerushalem".
The sheet is divided in pencil into squares, partly colored with watercolor. A golden peacock is portrayed in the center, on top of a tree, with mountains in the background. A hunter on the ground ambushes the peacock. There are additional sketches for the series "Golden Peacock" by Raban. It is unclear for which book Raban planned the illustration presented here.
29.5X20 cm, framed: 44X34.5 cm. Good condition, folding marks and creases. Not examined out of frame.