Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Postcards – Works of Art on Jewish and Biblical Subjects

Opening: $100
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
A large, quality collection containing approx. 100 postcards depicting works of art on Jewish and biblical subjects, their majority by Jewish artists. Most of them published by "Phönix" and some of them by other publishers, including "Zion", "Kadima", "Tushiyah", "Nitzanim" and more. Berlin, Vienna, Saint Petersburg, Warsaw, Jerusalem and elsewhere, [the first decades of the 20th century; approx. 65 postcards were printed before ca. 1904].
The collection contains postcards depicting works of arts showing biblical scenes and figures – the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, Joseph and Potifar's wife, Judah and Tamar, Moses, the prophet Deborah, David and Goliath, Isaiah, Jeremiah and more – by artists such as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Horace Vernet, and many others. Alongside them appear many postcards depicting works of arts of the best Jewish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Jozef Israëls, Lazar Krestin, Isidor Kaufmann, Leonid Pilichovsky, Maurycy Gottlieb, Samuel and many others. The collection also represents Bezalel artists: "Matityahu" and other works of arts by Boris Schatz, "the Messiah" and "Bar Kokhba" by Henryk Glicenstein and engravings by Hermann Struck; and more.
Many undivided postcards.
Approx. 14x9 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Stains. Blemishes and small open tears at the margins of some of the postcards. Six of the postcards were used.
Postcards, "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards
Postcards, "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards