Yemenite Torah Scribe. Etching. Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right.

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 108

LILIEN, EPHRAIM MOSES.

Yemenite Torah Scribe. Etching. Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right.

See Tel Aviv Museum Catalogue, Painting With Light, The Photographic Aspect in the Work of E. M. Lilien (1991) p.109 280x365 mm. Framed.

1914.:

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $700

Nahum Sokolow wrote of Lilien’s art: “Ephraim Moses Lilien has brought forth light from darkness; from the servitude of matter he has set us onto redemption. He is the painter of Redemption...It is his passage into the hall of Muses.” ( Hazefirah, no. 63, 1902)