Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Iche Mambush – Collection of Items

Opening: $200
Unsold
Collection of items relating to Iche Mambush (b. 1920), actor, artist and one of the founders of the "HaNassi" Ein Hod artists' village.
The collection includes: two invitations to the wedding of Iche Mambush and Aviva Margalit ("On the groom's side: Dahn Ben Amotz and Haim Hefer"); 16 photographs (some of the wedding, some of a tapestries exhibition); 8 letters sent to Amikam Gurevitch; letter from Shlomo Sheva, who asks Mambush to accept the apology of Amikam Gurevitch in order to enable him to continue with the preparations for a dinner at the "Kasit" cafe; arbitration decision, including a draft signed by Haim Hefer, Ya'akov Agmon, Amikam Gurevitch, and others; "Pachad Yitzchak" booklet with pearls of wisdom by Mambush (published by Shlomo Sheva and Zaharira Harifai); "Tapestries Mambush" catalog of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York in 1975; newspaper cuttings and more.
"It is not easy to sell tapestries for $5,000 in a country whose people are naked and barefoot, but we succeeded, we sold tapestries and we are making a good impression also in New York."
Total of 50 items. Sizes and conditions vary.
Israel, 1960s-70s-80s culture
Israel, 1960s-70s-80s culture