Auction 78 - Rare and Important Items
Ephraim Moses Lilien – Etching – Women at the Western Wall
Opening: $1,200
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
Women praying at the Western Wall, etching by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925). [1913].
Signed in the plate; signed in pencil.
The name of the artist, "Efraim Moshe son of Yaakov HaKohen Lilien" (Hebrew) appears on one of the stones of the Wall.
Etching: Approx. 49X33 cm (sheet: approx. 69X50 cm). Good condition. Stains to margins. Placed in fine wooden frame; unexamined out of frame.
See: Painting with Light: The Photographic Aspect in the Work of E. M. Lilien, by Micha and Orna Bar-Am. Tel Aviv Museum of Art & Dvir Publishing, 1991, pp. 138-139 (photographed, alongside the photograph the etching is based upon).
Signed in the plate; signed in pencil.
The name of the artist, "Efraim Moshe son of Yaakov HaKohen Lilien" (Hebrew) appears on one of the stones of the Wall.
Etching: Approx. 49X33 cm (sheet: approx. 69X50 cm). Good condition. Stains to margins. Placed in fine wooden frame; unexamined out of frame.
See: Painting with Light: The Photographic Aspect in the Work of E. M. Lilien, by Micha and Orna Bar-Am. Tel Aviv Museum of Art & Dvir Publishing, 1991, pp. 138-139 (photographed, alongside the photograph the etching is based upon).
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