Bialik, Chaim Nachman. Bust-portrait facing left. Chalks on blue tinted paper. signed and dated by artist lower right. Framed.
AUCTION 12 |
Tuesday, March 13th,
2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 313
GROSSMANN, ELIAS.
Bialik, Chaim Nachman. Bust-portrait facing left. Chalks on blue tinted paper. signed and dated by artist lower right. Framed.
Tel Aviv, 1933.:
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $500
The greatest Hebrew poet of modern times, Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) was also an essayist, storyteller, translator and editor. His writings exercised a profound influence on modern Jewish culture. An ardent zionist, he finally settled in Tel Aviv, Palestine in 1924. He sat for this portrait the year before he died in vienna, where he had gone for medical treatment. EJ, IV cols. 795-803.