Lot 237
Raphael Avraham Shalem – Lithographs and a Bezalel Graduation Certificate – 1918, 1937
Graduation certificate given to Bezalel student Raphael Shalem and lithographs created by him.
The artist Raphael Avraham Shalem (RASH) was born in Thessaloniki in 1888. Studied in "Bezalel" in the 1910s and later served there as a teacher.
* Handwritten certificate on Bezalel Academy for Arts and Crafts official stationery. Awarded in 1918, and listing eight different subjects; signed by Boris Schatz and with Bezalel Ink stamp.
Approx.27.5X20.5 cm. Fair condition. Tears restored with adhesive tape. Open tear at the center of folding mark.
* Lighting the sanctuary lamp, synagogue in Thessaloniki, lithograph. Monsohn printing press, Jerusalem [1937]. Three copies, one is complete and the two others are torn widthwise.
Shalem meant to print this painting in 1916 (as appears in the lithograph) but he could not afford the high expenses involved, and printed it only in 1937.
Approx. 63X41 cm. The complete copy in good-fair condition. Tears, some stains, horizontal folding mark. Some open tears at margins.
