Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items

"Purim Celebrations in Tel-Aviv", 1929 - Illustrated Poster

Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium
"Hagigot Purim be-Tel Aviv" [Hebrew: Purim Celebrations in Tel-Aviv], illustrated advertisement poster. "Lithographic printing A. L. Monsohn, Jerusalem". Design: Aryeh Nathan (signed in the plate: "Painter: A. Nathan").
Advertising poster for Purim celebrations in Tel-Aviv on 26-27.3.1929.
53X72.5 cm. Overall good condition. Bright colors. Creases and stains. Tears (one open tear, with color completion). Entire poster is mounted on thin acid-free paper.
See: Tel Aviv in Costume and Crown, Purim Celebrations in Tel Aviv, 1912-1935, Batia Carmiel (Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, 1999), p. 6 (noted that the poster won the painters' competition in 1929).