Collection of sketches for Judaica and decorative art objects, created by Ze'ev Raban. [Jerusalem, late 1920s or early 1930s].
The collection includes sketches designed for various commercial companies, such as packages for candles or Matzot, logos for "Kodesh" cooperative, "Menorah" company and "Nerot Yerushalayim Yehudah" company, sketches for "Zel Zion" company, sketches for candlesticks, Hanukkah lamps and spice containers, a decorated frame for a memorial leaf, decorated dedication-title page for a prayer book, as well as several small landscape drawings.
Many of the sketches are colored by hand and some are stamped with the ink-stamp "Ze'ev Raban workshop for industrial art (formerly Gur-Arie and Raban) Bezalel Yerushalem" (Hebrew). Some sketches bear comments handwritten by Raban, among them comments which he wrote for those who commissioned the work and comments about continuation of the work.
Total of 19 sketches and drawings (in different stages) and 2 printed items. Size and condition vary. Several sketches are small. Good overall condition. Most works are matted; some are attached to a passé par-tout with adhesive tape.
The sketch for the package of "Menorah" company appears in the book "Ze'ev Raban, Jewish Symbolist", Bat-Sheva Goldman Ida, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, 2001. Item 240.