Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Purim Festival in Haifa – Illustrated Poster, 1937

Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
"At the Gypsy Camp", illustrated poster - invitation to a "Purim Festival under the Patronage of Lady Reading", organized by the Maccabi Society in Haifa. Haifa: Omanut, 1937. Signed in print: Bass [Yosef Bass]. Hebrew and English.
Handsome illustration showing a couple of Gypsy musicians. On the lower right part of the poster are the event's details in Hebrew and English: "Dances accompanied by a Gypsy orchestra and a military jazz orchestra… prizes for successful masquerades". The poster designer, Yosef Bass, had arrived in Israel a year earlier and studied architecture at the Technion in Haifa.
63X95 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, creases and foxing to margins. Tear to lower margins. Restored tears to corners, margins and one folding line.
From the collection of Dr Simon Cohen.
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