Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
Arieh Allweil (1901-1967) – "The Ten Plagues" – Two Sketches for a Passover Haggadah – Israel, 1950s
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Unsold
"The Ten Plagues", two sketches for an illustration accompanying the Passover Haggadah, made by Arieh Allweil (1901-1967). [Israel, ca. second half of the 1950s].
1. Sheet of paper depicting a soldier throwing a grenade against the backdrop of a battlefield and around him, ten preliminary sketches of miniatures representing the Ten Plagues.
Mixed media on paper. Signed.
50X62 cm. Good condition. Abrasions. Small closed and open tears. Pinholes.
2. Wide paper frame (complementing the illustration appearing in the previous paragraph), depicting ten miniatures of the Ten Plagues. Each miniature integrates the first letter of the plague. The frame is the final version of the sketches appearing in paragraph 1.
Mixed media on paper.
50X64 cm. Good condition. Pinholes to margins. Stains and traces of tape. Printing instructions in pen on the margins of the leaf.
The illustration was printed in a Passover Haggadah accompanied by an introduction and commentaries by Max Brod and Y.M. Lask and seventeen illustrations by Allweil. Tel Aviv: "Sinai", [1954].
Arieh Allweil (1901-1967), born in Boibrik (Bíbrka, Galicia), established a group of "HaShomer Hatza'ir" in his hometown and in 1920 immigrated to Palestine as a pioneer. He was one of the founders of Upper Bitaniyah, the first settlement attempt of "HaShomer Hatza'ir" in Palestine. In 1921, following the Bitaniyah Affair, he quit the group and returned to Europe to study art at the Art Academy of Vienna. During his studies there he joined the "Kunstschau" group of avant-garde artists, whose members also included Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, made his first works of art, including the series of prints "Turah Aforah" inspired by his time at Upper Bitaniyah, and displayed his works in the group's exhibitions. In 1926, he returned to Palestine, where he worked as a painter and teacher, and was one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Painters and Sculptors Association, and "HaMidrasha" art school in Tel Aviv. He also self-published his books, in the "Hillel" publishing house he had founded. Allweil was shortly married to the poet Esther Raab and later married the painter Rachel Bograshov. In his artistic work – his paintings of the views of the country and his activity as a central figure in Israeli artistic circles – Arieh Allweil continued his life's work as a pioneer.
See: website of The Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod – "Arieh Allweil, Letters, Figures, Landscapes, retrospective exhibition. Curator: Galia Bar Or. March-June 2015.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
1. Sheet of paper depicting a soldier throwing a grenade against the backdrop of a battlefield and around him, ten preliminary sketches of miniatures representing the Ten Plagues.
Mixed media on paper. Signed.
50X62 cm. Good condition. Abrasions. Small closed and open tears. Pinholes.
2. Wide paper frame (complementing the illustration appearing in the previous paragraph), depicting ten miniatures of the Ten Plagues. Each miniature integrates the first letter of the plague. The frame is the final version of the sketches appearing in paragraph 1.
Mixed media on paper.
50X64 cm. Good condition. Pinholes to margins. Stains and traces of tape. Printing instructions in pen on the margins of the leaf.
The illustration was printed in a Passover Haggadah accompanied by an introduction and commentaries by Max Brod and Y.M. Lask and seventeen illustrations by Allweil. Tel Aviv: "Sinai", [1954].
Arieh Allweil (1901-1967), born in Boibrik (Bíbrka, Galicia), established a group of "HaShomer Hatza'ir" in his hometown and in 1920 immigrated to Palestine as a pioneer. He was one of the founders of Upper Bitaniyah, the first settlement attempt of "HaShomer Hatza'ir" in Palestine. In 1921, following the Bitaniyah Affair, he quit the group and returned to Europe to study art at the Art Academy of Vienna. During his studies there he joined the "Kunstschau" group of avant-garde artists, whose members also included Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, made his first works of art, including the series of prints "Turah Aforah" inspired by his time at Upper Bitaniyah, and displayed his works in the group's exhibitions. In 1926, he returned to Palestine, where he worked as a painter and teacher, and was one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Painters and Sculptors Association, and "HaMidrasha" art school in Tel Aviv. He also self-published his books, in the "Hillel" publishing house he had founded. Allweil was shortly married to the poet Esther Raab and later married the painter Rachel Bograshov. In his artistic work – his paintings of the views of the country and his activity as a central figure in Israeli artistic circles – Arieh Allweil continued his life's work as a pioneer.
See: website of The Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod – "Arieh Allweil, Letters, Figures, Landscapes, retrospective exhibition. Curator: Galia Bar Or. March-June 2015.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
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