Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics
December 21, 2021
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
Leon (Arie) Fein (1906-1993), Portrait of the Poet Yocheved Bat-Miriam, 1947. Oil on Canvas. Signed and dated.
43X36 cm (frame: 67.5X60 cm).
Leon (Arie) Fein (1906-1993), native of Białystok, Poland. Arrived in Palestine in 1926. Studied art at the Bezalel School, and later at Paris's National School of Fine Arts (Beaux-Arts de Paris). Was twice awarded the Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture (1937 and 1944). The present portrait was on display at the exhibition entitled "Bat-Miriam, Portrait and Self-Portrait" (see below) at the Genia Schreiber (Tel Aviv) University Art Gallery in 1998. In the exhibition catalogue (see below), the curator Uzi Agassi had this to say about the work: "This painting is of a different character from his [Fein's] other paintings from the same period, and as such, it is of special interest. By 1947, the year he painted the portrait of Bat-Miriam, he had already overcome his 'naturalism complex, ' and after [absorbing] the influences of Fauvism, he went on to "Synthetic Constructivism", according to his own definition […]. The object of the painting – the figure of Bat-Miriam – was apparently the cause of his return to the naturalist style. Fein resorts to warm, dark colors in depicting her portrait; returning us, in a manner, to the words of the poet Rahel: 'It appears that just now / by the grace of bygone times… has she risen from the Bible.'" Reference (catalogue and exhibition): Uzi Agassi (curator), "Bat-Miriam, Portrait and Self-Portrait, " exhibition and exhibition catalogue, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 1998, Hebrew.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,125
Including buyer's premium
Avigdor Stematsky (1908-1989), Female Portrait. Oil pastel on paper. Signed. Approx. 48X34. Framed, 71X56 cm with frame (loss to lower part). Unexamined out of frame.
Avigdor Stematsky (1908-1989), an Israeli painter, a leading member of the New Horizons (Ofakim Hadashim) art movement. Was born in Odessa and grew up in a Zionist home. In 1921, his family immigrated to Palestine, settling in the Neve Shalom neighborhood of Tel-Aviv (his father, Zvi Steimatzky, opened a small bookshop on 21 Herzl St. – the first branch of the future Steimatzky bookstore chain). In 1926 he was accepted to Bezalel. In the early 1930s, he moved to Paris, studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and met the artists of the Paris School of Art, who greatly influenced his style. He was a member of the first group of artists who represented Palestine in an international exhibition – the 1931 Paris Colonial Exhibition. Upon his return to Palestine, he held his first solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum (1939), participated in the "Exhibition of Eight" at the HaBimah Theater (1942) and was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for his painting "View of Rechovot" (during these years he was forced to make a living by taking odd jobs: delivering newspapers and designing sets for Purim balls and movie posters). In 1945, he established the "Studio" art school with Yechezkel Streichman and in 1948 was one of the founders of the New Horizons group (alongside Streichman, Joseph Zaritsky, Arie Aroch and others), identified with the "lyrical abstract" style.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $400
Unsold
Yehiel Krize (1909-1968), Figures. Oil on board. Signed. Approx. 46X35 cm, in a 72X61 cm frame. Minor blemishes to paint.
Yechiel Krize (1909-1968), born in Turek (Poland), immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1923. At first, he worked as his father's apprentice, painting houses, and in his twenties, was employed as a packer in citrus orchards. At that time, having no background in art, he started painting. Later, he studied at the studios of Avigdor Stematsky and Joseph Zaritsky, and in 1935, travelled to study art in Paris. During his stay in Europe, he worked in the artists' colony in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. In 1947-1948, he was twice awarded the Dizengoff Prize for Painting. Krize was close to artists of the New Horizons movement, his style growing increasingly abstract over the years, especially after his seven-month stay in New York in 1958-1959. Nevertheless, he chose to work as an independent artist, not joining any group. Solo exhibitions of his work were held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, at the Artists' House in Tel Aviv and Haifa and elsewhere, but his works were also exhibited in the official New Horizons exhibition at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, in 1963.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Unsold
Eliahu Sigard (Sigad) (1901-1975), Wedding. Oil on Masonite. Signed. 63X55 cm. Minor perforations and losses to board edges.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $100
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Elhanan Halpern (1914-1995), Ein Gedi. Oil on canvas. Signed. 81X65 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $525
Including buyer's premium
Two portfolios of prints hand-signed by Nahum Gutman. Israel, late 1970s.
1. Eight prints after drawings from the time of Israel's War of Independence. [Published by WIZO, 1978].
All prints hand-signed by Nahum Gutman, and numbered 120/180. Housed in original portfolio, with introductory page, a poetically written piece by poet Haim Gouri.
Enclosed: Photocopy of letter from the head of the Tel Aviv Branch of WIZO.
[8] loose plates + [2] ff., approx. 35X26 cm (plate size not uniform). Good condition. 2. "Nachum Gutman, 10 Etchings (Dry-Point) of Little Tel-Aviv." Israel: I.G.A. International Graphic Art Ltd., 1979. Hebrew and English.
Ten etchings by Nahum Gutman, housed in original portfolio. All etchings hand-signed in pencil by Nahum Gutman, and numbered AP 3/10.
[10] loose plates, approx. 37.5X35 cm (etchings in varying sizes), housed in printed cover and portfolio. Portfolio: 40X38 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to portfolio.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $100
Sold for: $325
Including buyer's premium
Ari (Erich) Glas (1897-1973) – Collection of prints and illustrations.
1-3. Three etchings. Signed in pencil. Two etchings titled (Hebrew) "Sheikh Jarrah" (neighborhood in Jerusalem) in pencil.
8.5X10 to 13X23 cm. Good condition. Stains. 4-13. Ten illustrations, probably for children's books.
Watercolor on paper. Signed (all but one).
12.5X13 to 25X32 cm. Good condition. Stains.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Four drawings by David Shneur (1905-1988). Ink and watercolor on card. All four are signed "D. Shneur" (Hebrew). The drawings (illustrations for a book?) depict children in Palestine – the sea-shore, an orchard, a dirt path in a rural settlement and an empty lot between urban buildings.
Approx. 27X25 cm. Good-fair condition. Blemishes and stains (mainly to margins). Small holes to some corners. Peelings and traces of mounting on verso of one of the drawings. Strip of paper attached top of one drawing (with tape on verso) – addition to the drawing.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
36 drawings and sketches – watercolor, ink and pencil on paper. 20 works signed by illustrator Binah Gvirtz. The works deal with children's urban and rural life and various Jewish festivals and holidays. Presumably, some were made for children's calendars published by Lion the Printer ("Calendar for the Children of Israel"). To some, short texts were added (handwritten leaves, in Hebrew and English).
The children's book illustrator Binah Gvirtz-Stekelis (1913-2008) was born in Poland and raised in Germany; immigrated to Palestine in 1935. She illustrated over 300 children's books, including "Atzu Ratzu Gamadim" by Miriam Yalan-Stekelis and "Al HaArnevet" by Chaim Nachman Bialik.
Size varies, approx. 16X12 cm. to 31.5X24 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Creases and minor blemishes.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Sketch for a "Shana Tovah" greeting card by Shalom Sebba (1897-1975), 1949. Tempera on green paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
Sketch: approx. 12X10 cm (22X15 cm leaf). Good condition. Stains.
The illustration, from a series of biblical illustrations, depicts Abraham in Parashat "Lech Lecha". Inscribed "Happy New Year" in Hebrew and English.
Siegfried Shalom Sebba (1897-1975), painter, stage designer, sculptor, photographer and book-illustrator. Born in Prussia, he acquired his artistic training in Königsberg and Berlin. Immigrated to Palestine in 1936. A pre-Canaanite artist, Sebba's work was characterized by rotund, heavy figures and objects, emphasized by solid, clear contours. In 1967 he moved to Germany, where he lived until his death.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Shalom Sebba (1897-1975), untitled, 1949. Tempera on paper. Signed and dated.
21X25 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Creases.
This incomplete work presumably belongs to Sebba's Biblical sketch series; five of these sketches were exhibited at Sebba's 1955 solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv art museum, titled "Five Biblical Compositions for Murals".
Siegfried Shalom Sebba (1897-1975), painter, stage designer, sculptor, photographer and book-illustrator. Born in Prussia, he acquired his artistic training in Königsberg and Berlin. Immigrated to Palestine in 1936. A pre-Canaanite artist, Sebba's work was characterized by rotund, heavy figures and objects, emphasized by solid, clear contours. In 1967 he moved to Germany, where he lived until his death. Provenance: the Uzi Agassi collection.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
Catalogue
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Sold for: $350
Including buyer's premium
Shalom Sebba (1897-1975), head, 1946. Pencil on paper. Signed and dated.
24X32 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Some creases. Tears to edges (not affecting work; tape to verso for reinforcement).
Siegfried Shalom Sebba (1897-1975), painter, stage designer, sculptor, photographer and book-illustrator. Born in Prussia, he acquired his artistic training in Königsberg and Berlin. Immigrated to Palestine in 1936. A pre-Canaanite artist, Sebba's work was characterized by rotund, heavy figures and objects, emphasized by solid, clear contours. In 1967 he moved to Germany, where he lived until his death.
Provenance: the Uzi Agassi collection.
Category
Art – Old Masters, European and Israeli Art
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