Haggadah Yerushalmith. Illustrated by Leah HaYerushalmith. 66 original silkscreens each signed in pencil by the Artist.

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Lot 106
(HAGADAH)

Haggadah Yerushalmith. Illustrated by Leah HaYerushalmith. 66 original silkscreens each signed in pencil by the Artist.

Limited Edition. This copy numbered: “A/P 5/9.” Hebrew with English translation overlaid in transparency. Full gilt-ttoled calf, gilt, housed in matching calf solander case. Large folio

Kfar Vradim: 1988

Est: $3,000 - $4,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,200
“Like all Naive painting, Leah HaYerushalmith’s art is not an outcome of learning. Her world was born of a saying, her imagery - of a phrase. Her gay obsession emerges needless of translation or editing. As all Naive painters, the artist discharges her inner basic optimism by giving reality to a story and tangibility to an image. The sporadic elements of a plot are - in her case - bound together with constant motion and rich, enchanting colourfulness. While the themes she adheres to show her to belong to a hundred-year old tradition of local narrative painters - through her talent for orchestration and plot-laying, she manages to discover a personal way for retelling stories of the Past in language of Today.” (Yona Fischer, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem). “The illustrations of Leah HaYerushalmith are especially suitable for the Passover Haggadah. To tell the story of the departure from Egypt is a pious action. The artistic language of Leah reaches children of any ages, from 3 to 120.” (Yaacov Agam, Paris)