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![Two portrait miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. [Germany?, ca. late 18th century].
The portraits](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale69a-public/145_1.jpg "Two Portrait Miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessi")
![Two portrait miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. [Germany?, ca. late 18th century].
The portraits](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale69a-public/145_2.jpg "Two Portrait Miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessi")
![Two portrait miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. [Germany?, ca. late 18th century].
The portraits](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale69a-public/145_3.jpg "Two Portrait Miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessi")
![Two portrait miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. [Germany?, ca. late 18th century].
The portraits](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale69a-public/145_4.jpg "Two Portrait Miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessi")
Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Two portrait miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. [Germany?, ca. late 18th century].
The portraits were painted in gouache, after engravings by Johann Friedrich Bause, printed in 1772 (engravings after oil paintings by Anton Graff). Lessing and Mendelssohn's names are handwritten on verso of the portrait's frames; beneath Mendelssohn's name is a short biography (German).
A strong, long-standing friendship prevailed between Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), a pioneer of the Haskalah [Enlightenment] movement, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), one of the most important German playwrights of the Enlightenment era. Lessing introduced Mendelssohn to his circle of intellectuals, their discourse initially yielding the joint composition "Pope a Metaphysician" ("Pope ein Metaphysiker!", 1755) and soon motivating Mendelssohn to start publishing his philosophical work. In his writings, Lessing argued against prejudice and for religious tolerance and the reign of reason, and through his close friendship with Mendelssohn practiced what he preached, unlike many of his contemporaries. Lessing wished to undermine the popular negative image of the Jews and put in the center of one of his first plays, "The Jews", a character of a decent, exemplary and moral Jew. His later play "Nathan the Wise", inspired by Mendelssohn, likewise depicts the character of a Jewish merchant as an intelligent and noble person.
Portrait miniatures originated in illuminated manuscripts. In the 15th century, artists started producing miniature portraits as independent items. Initially, these artists worked in royal courts, yet soon the custom of commissioning miniature portraits of family members and kings, politicians and intellectuals spread to the upper and lower nobility and eventually to the bourgeoisie as well. Miniature portraits of family members and loved ones were set in lockets and watches to be cherished and remembered; portraits of dignitaries and famous persons were elaborately framed and prominently displayed. The 18th century was the golden age of the portrait miniatures. Many miniature artists continued to work in Europe and its colonies during the first half of the 19th century; however, with the invention of photography in the mid-19th century, the demand for them ebbed and eventually stopped altogether.
Portraits: approx. 11X10 cm, in approx. 13.5X15.5 cm frames. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes to portraits. Dampstain to Mendelssohn's portrait. Damaged frames, with fractures and losses (in the wood and the glass) and glue repairs. The paper on verso of Lessing's portrait is torn and partly detached. Mendelssohn's portrait has not been examined outside the frame.
The portraits were painted in gouache, after engravings by Johann Friedrich Bause, printed in 1772 (engravings after oil paintings by Anton Graff). Lessing and Mendelssohn's names are handwritten on verso of the portrait's frames; beneath Mendelssohn's name is a short biography (German).
A strong, long-standing friendship prevailed between Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), a pioneer of the Haskalah [Enlightenment] movement, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), one of the most important German playwrights of the Enlightenment era. Lessing introduced Mendelssohn to his circle of intellectuals, their discourse initially yielding the joint composition "Pope a Metaphysician" ("Pope ein Metaphysiker!", 1755) and soon motivating Mendelssohn to start publishing his philosophical work. In his writings, Lessing argued against prejudice and for religious tolerance and the reign of reason, and through his close friendship with Mendelssohn practiced what he preached, unlike many of his contemporaries. Lessing wished to undermine the popular negative image of the Jews and put in the center of one of his first plays, "The Jews", a character of a decent, exemplary and moral Jew. His later play "Nathan the Wise", inspired by Mendelssohn, likewise depicts the character of a Jewish merchant as an intelligent and noble person.
Portrait miniatures originated in illuminated manuscripts. In the 15th century, artists started producing miniature portraits as independent items. Initially, these artists worked in royal courts, yet soon the custom of commissioning miniature portraits of family members and kings, politicians and intellectuals spread to the upper and lower nobility and eventually to the bourgeoisie as well. Miniature portraits of family members and loved ones were set in lockets and watches to be cherished and remembered; portraits of dignitaries and famous persons were elaborately framed and prominently displayed. The 18th century was the golden age of the portrait miniatures. Many miniature artists continued to work in Europe and its colonies during the first half of the 19th century; however, with the invention of photography in the mid-19th century, the demand for them ebbed and eventually stopped altogether.
Portraits: approx. 11X10 cm, in approx. 13.5X15.5 cm frames. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes to portraits. Dampstain to Mendelssohn's portrait. Damaged frames, with fractures and losses (in the wood and the glass) and glue repairs. The paper on verso of Lessing's portrait is torn and partly detached. Mendelssohn's portrait has not been examined outside the frame.
Category
Graphic Art and Paintings
Catalogue
Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $5,000
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
Sold for: $6,250
Including buyer's premium
The Temple Mount Viewed from the East, a painting by Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968). 1946.
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.
Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968) was born in Zerkow, Prussia. In 1906, with the financial support of his townspeople, he started studying painting in Berlin under Lovis Corinth and etching with Hermann Struck. After a long stay in France and Italy, Steinhardt returned to Germany, where he co-founded with the artists Ludwig Meidner and Richard Janthur the expressionist group "Die Pathetiker". With the outbreak of World War I, Steinhardt enlisted in the German army and was positioned in Lithuania, where he became familiar with the traditional lifestyle of local Jews. His portrait sketches of Lithuanian Jews were exhibited in an exhibition of the Berlin Sezession group in 1917, and due to them, Steinhardt was accepted as a member of the group. After the war, he started making woodcuts inspired by the images of the war and his awakened Jewish identity. In 1933, he was arrested by the Germans for allegedly disturbing the Führer's speeches, yet was released due to his being a well-known artist. Several days later, he immigrated Palestine with his wife and daughter and after several months in Tel Aviv, settled in Jerusalem and opened an art school. In 1949, Steinhardt closed his school and was appointed the director of the graphics department of New Bezalel. Between 1953 and 1957, he headed the school (a position he was promised much earlier but was given first to Joseph Budko). In 1955, he was awarded an international prize in graphic art at the Sau Paulo Biennale in Brazil. Steinhardt, a prominent artist of German Expressionism, was famous mainly for his woodcuts; however, he never abandoned the easel. His work manifests humane protest alongside nostalgia for biblical times and for the Shtetl. He established a generation of students who continued his expressionist style.
84X69 cm. Framed: 88.5X104 cm. Good condition. Minor cracks to paint. Minor blemishes to frame.
Literature: The Woodcuts of Jakob Steinhardt, by Leon Kolb. San Francisco: Genuart Co., 1959.
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.
Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968) was born in Zerkow, Prussia. In 1906, with the financial support of his townspeople, he started studying painting in Berlin under Lovis Corinth and etching with Hermann Struck. After a long stay in France and Italy, Steinhardt returned to Germany, where he co-founded with the artists Ludwig Meidner and Richard Janthur the expressionist group "Die Pathetiker". With the outbreak of World War I, Steinhardt enlisted in the German army and was positioned in Lithuania, where he became familiar with the traditional lifestyle of local Jews. His portrait sketches of Lithuanian Jews were exhibited in an exhibition of the Berlin Sezession group in 1917, and due to them, Steinhardt was accepted as a member of the group. After the war, he started making woodcuts inspired by the images of the war and his awakened Jewish identity. In 1933, he was arrested by the Germans for allegedly disturbing the Führer's speeches, yet was released due to his being a well-known artist. Several days later, he immigrated Palestine with his wife and daughter and after several months in Tel Aviv, settled in Jerusalem and opened an art school. In 1949, Steinhardt closed his school and was appointed the director of the graphics department of New Bezalel. Between 1953 and 1957, he headed the school (a position he was promised much earlier but was given first to Joseph Budko). In 1955, he was awarded an international prize in graphic art at the Sau Paulo Biennale in Brazil. Steinhardt, a prominent artist of German Expressionism, was famous mainly for his woodcuts; however, he never abandoned the easel. His work manifests humane protest alongside nostalgia for biblical times and for the Shtetl. He established a generation of students who continued his expressionist style.
84X69 cm. Framed: 88.5X104 cm. Good condition. Minor cracks to paint. Minor blemishes to frame.
Literature: The Woodcuts of Jakob Steinhardt, by Leon Kolb. San Francisco: Genuart Co., 1959.
Category
Graphic Art and Paintings
Catalogue
Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Unsold
Two Women, a painting by Artur Markowicz (1872-1934).
Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard. Signed: "Artur Markowicz, Krakow".
Artur Markowicz (1872-1934) was born in Krakow. He studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts as the student of Leopold Leffler, Jan Matejko and others and during the years 1896-1903 continued his studies in Munich and at the École des Beaux-Art in Paris, where he also exhibited his work. In 1904, he returned to Krakow and opened a studio in the Jewish district, Kazimierz. During the years 1907-1908, he visited Jerusalem. He continued to work in Krakow, while touring Europe and displaying his works. Like other Polish-Jewish artists, he was a member of the "Jewish Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts". His works are mostly realistic with visible symbolist and expressionist influence; one of his prevalent subjects is the Jews of Krakow, depicted time and again in his work.
26.5X34 cm. Framed: 48.5X42.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to margins. Fractures and blemishes to frame.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard. Signed: "Artur Markowicz, Krakow".
Artur Markowicz (1872-1934) was born in Krakow. He studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts as the student of Leopold Leffler, Jan Matejko and others and during the years 1896-1903 continued his studies in Munich and at the École des Beaux-Art in Paris, where he also exhibited his work. In 1904, he returned to Krakow and opened a studio in the Jewish district, Kazimierz. During the years 1907-1908, he visited Jerusalem. He continued to work in Krakow, while touring Europe and displaying his works. Like other Polish-Jewish artists, he was a member of the "Jewish Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts". His works are mostly realistic with visible symbolist and expressionist influence; one of his prevalent subjects is the Jews of Krakow, depicted time and again in his work.
26.5X34 cm. Framed: 48.5X42.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to margins. Fractures and blemishes to frame.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Graphic Art and Paintings
Catalogue
Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $2,000
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium
Two Boys, a painting by Mané Katz (1894-1962).
Gouache on cardboard. Signed.
Emanuel Mané Katz (1894-1962) was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. As the son of a synagogue attendant (shamash), he received traditional education; yet at the age of 16, moved to Vilnius to study art. Katz did not find his place in Vilnius, and after a while, moved to Kiev, where during the years 1911-1913, he studied at the school of fine arts. Later, he headed for Paris where he studied at the studio of Fernand Cormon at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. When World War I broke out, he wanted to join the French Foreign Legion, but was rejected due to his short stature and returned to Russia. After the war, he taught at the Kharkiv school of art and was one of the members of the avant-garde "Group of Three". In 1921, he returned to Paris and in the following years, visited Palestine several times, painting its views. At the beginning of World War II, he was drafted and taken prisoner by the Germans then released, escaping immediately to the USA. After the war, he returned to Paris for the third time.
Katz visited Israel several times, while continuing to travel and exhibit around the world. In 1958, he immigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa, where the municipality gave him a house. In an agreement signed by the artist and the city, Katz made a commitment to donate his entire collection to the city in exchange for the establishment of a museum that will preserve his artistic legacy. Katz belonged to the School of Paris; in his early days as an artist, he was influenced by Cubism, then by Fauvism, later turning to the works of Rembrandt, which accounts for the sympathy with which he sees his subjects and his compassion to those on the fringes of society.
31X43.5 cm. Good condition. The signature is partly erased; appearing alongside it is a date, mostly illegible. Framed: 78X63 cm. Blemishes and minor fractures to frame.
Gouache on cardboard. Signed.
Emanuel Mané Katz (1894-1962) was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. As the son of a synagogue attendant (shamash), he received traditional education; yet at the age of 16, moved to Vilnius to study art. Katz did not find his place in Vilnius, and after a while, moved to Kiev, where during the years 1911-1913, he studied at the school of fine arts. Later, he headed for Paris where he studied at the studio of Fernand Cormon at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. When World War I broke out, he wanted to join the French Foreign Legion, but was rejected due to his short stature and returned to Russia. After the war, he taught at the Kharkiv school of art and was one of the members of the avant-garde "Group of Three". In 1921, he returned to Paris and in the following years, visited Palestine several times, painting its views. At the beginning of World War II, he was drafted and taken prisoner by the Germans then released, escaping immediately to the USA. After the war, he returned to Paris for the third time.
Katz visited Israel several times, while continuing to travel and exhibit around the world. In 1958, he immigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa, where the municipality gave him a house. In an agreement signed by the artist and the city, Katz made a commitment to donate his entire collection to the city in exchange for the establishment of a museum that will preserve his artistic legacy. Katz belonged to the School of Paris; in his early days as an artist, he was influenced by Cubism, then by Fauvism, later turning to the works of Rembrandt, which accounts for the sympathy with which he sees his subjects and his compassion to those on the fringes of society.
31X43.5 cm. Good condition. The signature is partly erased; appearing alongside it is a date, mostly illegible. Framed: 78X63 cm. Blemishes and minor fractures to frame.
Category
Graphic Art and Paintings
Catalogue
![Reizele, a painting by Chaim Gliksberg (1904-1970), [1948].
Oil on Masonite. Signed.
In the painting, the artist depicts](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale69a-public/149.jpg "Chaim Gliksberg (1904-1970) – \"Reizele\" – Oil on Masonite")
Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Reizele, a painting by Chaim Gliksberg (1904-1970), [1948].
Oil on Masonite. Signed.
In the painting, the artist depicts Reizele, the woman who helped his grandmother, the Rebbetzin of Svislach, with the cooking.
Chaim Gliksberg (1904-1970), born in Pinsk, studied art in Odessa, and in 1925, immigrated to Palestine. After his arrival, he worked for a while as a guide at the Bezalel museum and later worked in road paving. During this period, he became acquainted with the painter Joseph Zaritsky and his aquarelles of landscapes in Palestine, and under his influence created himself a series of landscape aquarelles. In 1927, he displayed his works in an exhibition at the Lemel school, where he met Bialik (who even purchased some of his works), and a close friendship developed between them. In 1929, Gliksberg moved to Tel Aviv. He was an outstanding and active figure in the field of Israeli art; a founder of The Israel Painters and Sculptors Association and an art teacher, he exhibited his works in museums across the country and was awarded the Dizengoff Prize three times.
33.5X24 cm. Framed: 54X44 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Oil on Masonite. Signed.
In the painting, the artist depicts Reizele, the woman who helped his grandmother, the Rebbetzin of Svislach, with the cooking.
Chaim Gliksberg (1904-1970), born in Pinsk, studied art in Odessa, and in 1925, immigrated to Palestine. After his arrival, he worked for a while as a guide at the Bezalel museum and later worked in road paving. During this period, he became acquainted with the painter Joseph Zaritsky and his aquarelles of landscapes in Palestine, and under his influence created himself a series of landscape aquarelles. In 1927, he displayed his works in an exhibition at the Lemel school, where he met Bialik (who even purchased some of his works), and a close friendship developed between them. In 1929, Gliksberg moved to Tel Aviv. He was an outstanding and active figure in the field of Israeli art; a founder of The Israel Painters and Sculptors Association and an art teacher, he exhibited his works in museums across the country and was awarded the Dizengoff Prize three times.
33.5X24 cm. Framed: 54X44 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Graphic Art and Paintings
Catalogue
Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for: $4,500
Including buyer's premium
Portrait of a Girl, a painting by Chaim Atar (1902-1953).
Oil on panel. Signed.
Chaim Atar (Apteker, 1902-1953) was born in Zlatopol, Ukraine. In his youth he was a member of the "Pirchei Zion" organization in his town and during the 1919 pogroms in Ukraine, joined a Jewish self-defense group. In 1922 he immigrated to Palestine and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Ein Harod. Atar, one of the leading artists of Palestine who was awarded the 1943 Dizengoff Prize, was an autodidact. Over the years, he had spent long periods of time in Paris, where he was influenced by Eastern European artists of the School of Paris, and especially by Chaim Soutine. Atar mostly created portraits and expressionist still-life paintings. He took on himself the care for the artistic aspect of the Kibbutz life. The paintings he created for his kibbutz decorated the dining room during the Jewish holidays for many years. In 1937, he founded the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein-Harod, which at first was located in a small wooden cabin, and in which he collected works of art by Jewish and Israeli artists alongside reproductions of masterpieces. He also built a collection of Judaica artifacts in order to preserve the traditions of Jewish art. In 1948, the cornerstone of the permanent building of the museum was laid, with Atar serving as its first director until his death (see: website of the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod).
49X39 cm. Good condition. A minor fracture at the edge of the panel. Framed: 71X60 cm. Minor fractures in the frame.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Oil on panel. Signed.
Chaim Atar (Apteker, 1902-1953) was born in Zlatopol, Ukraine. In his youth he was a member of the "Pirchei Zion" organization in his town and during the 1919 pogroms in Ukraine, joined a Jewish self-defense group. In 1922 he immigrated to Palestine and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Ein Harod. Atar, one of the leading artists of Palestine who was awarded the 1943 Dizengoff Prize, was an autodidact. Over the years, he had spent long periods of time in Paris, where he was influenced by Eastern European artists of the School of Paris, and especially by Chaim Soutine. Atar mostly created portraits and expressionist still-life paintings. He took on himself the care for the artistic aspect of the Kibbutz life. The paintings he created for his kibbutz decorated the dining room during the Jewish holidays for many years. In 1937, he founded the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein-Harod, which at first was located in a small wooden cabin, and in which he collected works of art by Jewish and Israeli artists alongside reproductions of masterpieces. He also built a collection of Judaica artifacts in order to preserve the traditions of Jewish art. In 1948, the cornerstone of the permanent building of the museum was laid, with Atar serving as its first director until his death (see: website of the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod).
49X39 cm. Good condition. A minor fracture at the edge of the panel. Framed: 71X60 cm. Minor fractures in the frame.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Graphic Art and Paintings
Catalogue
Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Unsold
"The Ten Plagues", two sketches for an illustration accompanying the Passover Haggadah, made by Arieh Allweil (1901-1967). [Israel, ca. second half of the 1950s].
1. Sheet of paper depicting a soldier throwing a grenade against the backdrop of a battlefield and around him, ten preliminary sketches of miniatures representing the Ten Plagues.
Mixed media on paper. Signed.
50X62 cm. Good condition. Abrasions. Small closed and open tears. Pinholes.
2. Wide paper frame (complementing the illustration appearing in the previous paragraph), depicting ten miniatures of the Ten Plagues. Each miniature integrates the first letter of the plague. The frame is the final version of the sketches appearing in paragraph 1.
Mixed media on paper.
50X64 cm. Good condition. Pinholes to margins. Stains and traces of tape. Printing instructions in pen on the margins of the leaf.
The illustration was printed in a Passover Haggadah accompanied by an introduction and commentaries by Max Brod and Y.M. Lask and seventeen illustrations by Allweil. Tel Aviv: "Sinai", [1954].
Arieh Allweil (1901-1967), born in Boibrik (Bíbrka, Galicia), established a group of "HaShomer Hatza'ir" in his hometown and in 1920 immigrated to Palestine as a pioneer. He was one of the founders of Upper Bitaniyah, the first settlement attempt of "HaShomer Hatza'ir" in Palestine. In 1921, following the Bitaniyah Affair, he quit the group and returned to Europe to study art at the Art Academy of Vienna. During his studies there he joined the "Kunstschau" group of avant-garde artists, whose members also included Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, made his first works of art, including the series of prints "Turah Aforah" inspired by his time at Upper Bitaniyah, and displayed his works in the group's exhibitions. In 1926, he returned to Palestine, where he worked as a painter and teacher, and was one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Painters and Sculptors Association, and "HaMidrasha" art school in Tel Aviv. He also self-published his books, in the "Hillel" publishing house he had founded. Allweil was shortly married to the poet Esther Raab and later married the painter Rachel Bograshov. In his artistic work – his paintings of the views of the country and his activity as a central figure in Israeli artistic circles – Arieh Allweil continued his life's work as a pioneer.
See: website of The Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod – "Arieh Allweil, Letters, Figures, Landscapes, retrospective exhibition. Curator: Galia Bar Or. March-June 2015.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
1. Sheet of paper depicting a soldier throwing a grenade against the backdrop of a battlefield and around him, ten preliminary sketches of miniatures representing the Ten Plagues.
Mixed media on paper. Signed.
50X62 cm. Good condition. Abrasions. Small closed and open tears. Pinholes.
2. Wide paper frame (complementing the illustration appearing in the previous paragraph), depicting ten miniatures of the Ten Plagues. Each miniature integrates the first letter of the plague. The frame is the final version of the sketches appearing in paragraph 1.
Mixed media on paper.
50X64 cm. Good condition. Pinholes to margins. Stains and traces of tape. Printing instructions in pen on the margins of the leaf.
The illustration was printed in a Passover Haggadah accompanied by an introduction and commentaries by Max Brod and Y.M. Lask and seventeen illustrations by Allweil. Tel Aviv: "Sinai", [1954].
Arieh Allweil (1901-1967), born in Boibrik (Bíbrka, Galicia), established a group of "HaShomer Hatza'ir" in his hometown and in 1920 immigrated to Palestine as a pioneer. He was one of the founders of Upper Bitaniyah, the first settlement attempt of "HaShomer Hatza'ir" in Palestine. In 1921, following the Bitaniyah Affair, he quit the group and returned to Europe to study art at the Art Academy of Vienna. During his studies there he joined the "Kunstschau" group of avant-garde artists, whose members also included Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, made his first works of art, including the series of prints "Turah Aforah" inspired by his time at Upper Bitaniyah, and displayed his works in the group's exhibitions. In 1926, he returned to Palestine, where he worked as a painter and teacher, and was one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Painters and Sculptors Association, and "HaMidrasha" art school in Tel Aviv. He also self-published his books, in the "Hillel" publishing house he had founded. Allweil was shortly married to the poet Esther Raab and later married the painter Rachel Bograshov. In his artistic work – his paintings of the views of the country and his activity as a central figure in Israeli artistic circles – Arieh Allweil continued his life's work as a pioneer.
See: website of The Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod – "Arieh Allweil, Letters, Figures, Landscapes, retrospective exhibition. Curator: Galia Bar Or. March-June 2015.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Graphic Art and Paintings
Catalogue
![Chagall, by Raymond Cogniat. [Paris]: Flammarion, [1965?]. French.
Monograph on Marc Chagall, accompanied by dozens of repr](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale69a-public/152_1.jpg "\"Chagall\", Monograph with Color Reproductions – A Copy with a Handwrit")
![Chagall, by Raymond Cogniat. [Paris]: Flammarion, [1965?]. French.
Monograph on Marc Chagall, accompanied by dozens of repr](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale69a-public/152_2.jpg "\"Chagall\", Monograph with Color Reproductions – A Copy with a Handwrit")
Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $5,000
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000
Unsold
Chagall, by Raymond Cogniat. [Paris]: Flammarion, [1965?]. French.
Monograph on Marc Chagall, accompanied by dozens of reproductions of his works. On the first page is a large illustration in color pencils, made by Chagall, with an inscription in his handwriting: "Pour Edith et Maurice Schlogel, en souvenir, Marc Chagall" [To Edith and Maurice Schlogel, a souvenir, Marc Chagall]. Dated 1966.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), a Russian-French artist, is considered by many the greatest Jewish modern painter. Chagall was born to a Hassidic family in Liozna (then in Belarus), the eldest of nine siblings. When his mother asked his first art teacher, the painter Yehuda Pen, whether her son could earn a living from painting, Pen looked at Chagall's sketches and told her: "Yes, he has some ability". At the age of twenty, he was accepted to study art in St. Petersburg (during this period, he painted for the first time the figure of the Fiddler on the Roof, after which the famous musical is named) and in 1914 married the writer Bella Rosenfeld, who became known as one of his greatest sources of inspiration. After the October Revolution, Chagall was appointed commissar of arts for the Vitebsk district, where he established an art school and a museum. Among the teachers of the school were the artist El Lissitzky and the painter Yehuda Pen – Chagall's first teacher.
In 1920, Chagall moved to Western Europe and after a short stay in Berlin settled in Paris. During this period, he created the important series "My Life", which documented the views of the Jewish town, and the series of bible illustrations. In 1941, about two years after the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Chagall succeeded in escaping to the USA with the assistance of the American journalist Varian Fry. For several years he lived in New York, returning to France after the war, where he remained until his death.
Chagall's works of art, which embrace a wide variety of fields and styles (prints, theater sets and costumes, sculpture and ceramics, tapestry, mosaics, stained glass, and more), are exhibited in leading museums and galleries, in the opera houses of New York and Paris, in the Mainz Cathedral, in the Knesset (in The Chagall Lounge) and elsewhere. The painter Pablo Picasso said of his work: "When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is".
95, [1] pp, approx. 28 cm. With original dust-jacket. Good condition. Minor blemishes. A small tear to edge of dust-jacket.
Monograph on Marc Chagall, accompanied by dozens of reproductions of his works. On the first page is a large illustration in color pencils, made by Chagall, with an inscription in his handwriting: "Pour Edith et Maurice Schlogel, en souvenir, Marc Chagall" [To Edith and Maurice Schlogel, a souvenir, Marc Chagall]. Dated 1966.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), a Russian-French artist, is considered by many the greatest Jewish modern painter. Chagall was born to a Hassidic family in Liozna (then in Belarus), the eldest of nine siblings. When his mother asked his first art teacher, the painter Yehuda Pen, whether her son could earn a living from painting, Pen looked at Chagall's sketches and told her: "Yes, he has some ability". At the age of twenty, he was accepted to study art in St. Petersburg (during this period, he painted for the first time the figure of the Fiddler on the Roof, after which the famous musical is named) and in 1914 married the writer Bella Rosenfeld, who became known as one of his greatest sources of inspiration. After the October Revolution, Chagall was appointed commissar of arts for the Vitebsk district, where he established an art school and a museum. Among the teachers of the school were the artist El Lissitzky and the painter Yehuda Pen – Chagall's first teacher.
In 1920, Chagall moved to Western Europe and after a short stay in Berlin settled in Paris. During this period, he created the important series "My Life", which documented the views of the Jewish town, and the series of bible illustrations. In 1941, about two years after the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Chagall succeeded in escaping to the USA with the assistance of the American journalist Varian Fry. For several years he lived in New York, returning to France after the war, where he remained until his death.
Chagall's works of art, which embrace a wide variety of fields and styles (prints, theater sets and costumes, sculpture and ceramics, tapestry, mosaics, stained glass, and more), are exhibited in leading museums and galleries, in the opera houses of New York and Paris, in the Mainz Cathedral, in the Knesset (in The Chagall Lounge) and elsewhere. The painter Pablo Picasso said of his work: "When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is".
95, [1] pp, approx. 28 cm. With original dust-jacket. Good condition. Minor blemishes. A small tear to edge of dust-jacket.
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Graphic Art and Paintings
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Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
December 3, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
"Vitrage", a sculpture by Yaacov Agam (b. 1928).
Printed Plexiglas. Signed and numbered "AP 11/18".
Yaacov Agam was born and raised in Rishon LeZion. As the son of a rabbi, he received traditional education, but later turned to art. Between 1946 and 1949, he studied at Bezalel under Mordechai Ardon and in 1949, he moved to Zurich to study at the School of Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbe Schule). Agam then moved to Paris, where he continued his studies and where he lives and works to this day. In Paris, though at first influenced by surrealism, he started developing the style of kinetic art for which he is famous. Agam's work is characterized by its colorfulness and abstract images based on Jewish-Kabbalistic iconography.
Plexiglas: 63X27.5 cm. In a frame with a pedestal. Total height: 70.5 cm. Stains and color losses to frame.
Printed Plexiglas. Signed and numbered "AP 11/18".
Yaacov Agam was born and raised in Rishon LeZion. As the son of a rabbi, he received traditional education, but later turned to art. Between 1946 and 1949, he studied at Bezalel under Mordechai Ardon and in 1949, he moved to Zurich to study at the School of Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbe Schule). Agam then moved to Paris, where he continued his studies and where he lives and works to this day. In Paris, though at first influenced by surrealism, he started developing the style of kinetic art for which he is famous. Agam's work is characterized by its colorfulness and abstract images based on Jewish-Kabbalistic iconography.
Plexiglas: 63X27.5 cm. In a frame with a pedestal. Total height: 70.5 cm. Stains and color losses to frame.
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Graphic Art and Paintings
Catalogue