Palestine - 10 Views.

AUCTION 48 | Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Featuring an Exceptional Collection of American Judaica

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Lot 245

RABAN, ZE’EV.

Palestine - 10 Views.

Each plate matted, with tissue-guard. Original calf portfolio, gilt, with metal inlay of David’s Citadel, Jerusalem. Folio

Jerusalem: Bezalel (1931)

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $750

Ten plates reproducing legendary views of Biblical cities composed by Raban in a Jugendstil-Orientalist style. See Tel Aviv Museum Catalogue, Ze'ev Raban: A Hebrew Symbolist. ( 2001) pp. 122-123, nos. 156, 158, 160, 161; Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Raban Remembered (1982) no. 71.