Auction 34 - The Arnie Druck Collections

"Four Hours Top" – Jan Rauchwerger – Poets' Signatures – "Even Hoshen" Publishing

Opening: $300
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1. Four Hours Top, portraits in poetry and painting, Jan Rauchwerger. Even Hoshen publishing, 1997. Selected poems by nineteen Hebrew poets (Sabeili Greenberg's poems were translated into Hebrew by David Avidan), with reproductions of portraits by Jan Rauchwerger for this project. Rauchwerger drew the portraits during one session with the poet and used various techniques by a law that he himself set in advance: the session will not last more than four hours – "Four Hours Top". 129 pp, 30 cm.
2. Copy of the bibliophilic edition of this book; poems by fifteen poets appear in this edition. First book of the series "Shvu" – books of portraits in poetry and painting. Printed in "Hadassah" font in memory of its designer, typographer and designer Henri Friedlander, in one hundred signed and numbered copies. Presented is copy no. 18 signed by Jan Ruchwerger (in colophon) and by every one of the poets whose poems and portraits appear in the book. Slipcase. 72, [4] pp, 33 cm.
3. 22 postcards with reproductions of above portraits, in original cardboard binder.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.
Artist's Books. Facsimiles. Bibliophilia
Artist's Books. Facsimiles. Bibliophilia