The Aachen Passover Hagadah.
AUCTION 55 |
Thursday, June 21st,
2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 137
(HAGADAH).
The Aachen Passover Hagadah.
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.