Auction 34 - The Arnie Druck Collections

Collection of Items – Bezalel and "New Bezalel" – Lilien

Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
20 items related to the Bezalel Academy of Art: Two postcards; five paper items with illustrations by E. M. Lilien (one is an invitation to a Purim party for Israeli authors from 1901); a Bezalel advertisement brochure for Passover 1924; a print, "About the symbols on Hebrew coins", by Mordechai Narkis (with a dedication), 1928. A copy of the "Megillat Ross", by Y.B.R.R. [Yosef Yoel ben Reuven Rivlin]. Jerusalem, 1910 (parody according to Megillat Ross; Rivlin assisted Prof. Boris Schatz in founding the Bezalel Academy and afterward he was pushed aside by the "Russian", led by Yitzchak ben Zvi and Rachel Yana'it, who are the primary subjects of this parody); a lacking copy of Nod HaDema'ot by Abel Pann (with only two plates); a share certificate and paper items designed by Meir Gur-Arie and Ze'ev Raban, etc.
12 greeting cards written and hand-drawn (ink and watercolor on paper), with New Year greetings, made by a Bezalel student Ms. Tiah Grau who studied in the Practical Graphics Department, [1950-s].
Varied size and condition.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.
Artist's Books. Facsimiles. Bibliophilia
Artist's Books. Facsimiles. Bibliophilia