Duda’im ["Mandrakes": Children's Book].

Auction 90 | Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts

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Lot 115

GUR-ARYE, MEIR.

Duda’im ["Mandrakes": Children's Book].

Twenty silhouette illustrations. Original color pictorial stiff wrappers, staples. Rectangular 4to.

Tel Aviv: 1947

Est: $200 - $300

Meir Gur-Arie (Gorodetzky, 1891-1951) was a prominent member of Jerusalem’s Bezalel School of Art; one of his specialist artistic fields was the fashioning of silhouettes. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Bezalel 1906-1929 (1983) p. 370.