Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics

Gabriel Grad – Collection of Posters – Lithuania and Palestine, 1920s-1940s – Color Posters

Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Twelve posters and adverisements related to Gabriel Grad: posters for various concerts, advertisements for music academies founded by him, and more. Lithuania and Palestine, 1920s to 1940s. Hebrew, Yiddish and some Lithuanian and English. Included: • Color advertisement (handwritten; lithographic border), for the "Gabriel Grad's music academy in Kovno" (1920s). • Lithographic color advertisement for a concert of Hebrew music and classical music, conducted by Grad (Raseiniai, 1920). • Advertisement for the Benhatov conservatory in Tel Aviv (founded by Grad). • Poster for a concert at the Herzliya Gymnasium – music for poems by Bialik, Zalman Shneur, Tchernichovsky and others, composed by Grad (1925). • Poster for the operetta "Shnei Kuni Leml" (The Flying Matchmaker) by Abraham Goldfaden; music by Gabriel Grad (Tel-Aviv). • Advertisement for the "Popular conservatorium for laborers and clerks", directed by Gabriel Grad (Tel Aviv, 1920s?). • Advertisement for the "celebration in honor of the 60th jubilee of H.N. Bialik […] piano: composer Gabriel Grad" (Tel Aviv, 1933). • Poster for the play "Judith and Holofernes", by Rachel Grad, with music by Gabriel Grad (Tel Aviv, 1947). • And more. 12 advertisements and posters, approx. 32X63 to 70X100 cm. Fair overall condition. Stains. Tears (long tear to one poster). Creases. Worming and filing holes. Pen notations. Gabriel Grad (1890-1950), a prominent composer in Jewish Palestine, born in Rietavas (Lithuania). Studied at the Berlin music academy, and during the years 1920-1922 established in Kovno an academy for Hebrew and classical music. In 1922, he returned to Berlin where he founded a musical ensemble with the violinist Alfred Wittenberg and the cellist Felix-Robert Mendelsohn. He immigrated to Palestine in 1924 and established in Tel-Aviv the Benhatov (Hebrew: anagram of Beethoven) conservatorium. He wrote melodies for numerous poems by Bialik and the anthem of the Tel-Aviv Port. Enclosed : • Two advertising posters for a concert of popular Jewish music, held in Kovno in 1921 (Grad's name is not mentioned). • Watercolor painting of the Tower of David in Jerusalem (hand-signed and captioned in Hebrew: "Painting for the opera Judith and Holofernes by Gabriel and Rachel Grad, painting by Franz Schlitzer, Tel-Aviv, 24.xi.46". • Passes issued to Gabriel Grad (during his military service?) (Russian; 1917); and additional notes.
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