The Aachen Passover Hagadah.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 137

(HAGADAH).

The Aachen Passover Hagadah.

Designed and illuminated by Zoya Cherkassky. 50 serigraph plates. One of 150 numbered copies, this numbered “HC. 2” and neatly designated as such in pencil at corner of each plate. Loose as issued in original folding-case.

Tel Aviv: 2004

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

Among the sources that have clearly inspired Zoya Cherkassky, the Kiev-born artist of this most original Hagadah, are early 20th-century Russian artists such as El Lissitzky and Kasimir Malevich, alongside such medieval Hebrew manuscripts as the famed Birds’ Head Haggadah.