Eretz-Israel 1920, 10 etchings, by Nachum Gutman. Israel: "Iga", 1979. Hebrew and English.
Ten etchings by Nachum Gutman depicting the views and people of Palestine – "Fisherman at Jaffa Coast", "The Orchards of Petah-Tikva", "Peasant Selling Chickens", "In the Alleys of Jerusalem", "By the Western Wall" and more. The etchings are signed in pencil and placed in the original portfolio. Numbered copy, 39/100.

"Nachum Guttman was one of the first artists to whom the country was his home and motherland, and these people painted the country as one paints his own home. His paintings and sketches could only have been done by a person who had lived with these landscapes from his youth, who absorbed their colors, their light and their shadows. Guttman painted the various neighborhoods of Jerusalem when he was but a boy of 11, studied at 'Bezalel', and then went out to the 'wide world' – to the capitals of Europe, taking with him a portfolio of sketches. Using these sketches as a guide, he made a limited number of stoneprints in Vienna in 1920 […] Fifty-eight years after that these prints were done anew by the etching workshop of 'Bezalel', under the supervision of Nachum Guttman […] He bequeaths us a motherland in these etchings – the paintings of the very beginning – here we have its sounds, its colors, the very odors of the Land of Israel, which we will never again see, and which we will long for more and more" (from the introduction by Shlomo Shva).

[10] etchings + [3] ff., approx. 37.5X35 cm (etchings of varying size). Good condition.

Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.