Genesis, From the Creation until the Deluge.

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 139

PANN, ABEL.

Genesis, From the Creation until the Deluge.

25 colored and tinted lithographs on heavy, embossed paper, <<signed by the artist in pencil>> on 24 plates, frontispiece signed in the stone. Limited edition, inside cover penciled: “Numbered from 1-100, N10, Abel Pann.” Glassine sheets precede lithographs. Introductory text in Hebrew and English. Original full vellum, upper cover titled by hand in red (by Pann?), rubbed. Tall folio.

Jerusalem: Palestine Publishing Art Co. c. 1925

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,800

“Pann’s Biblical paintings have two aspects: On the one hand they appear to be documentary, there is an attempt to root the biblical scenes and heroes in a Mediterranean setting and in situations which appear to be authentic. On the other hand, these are the creations of a man who associated himself with French “Mystic Orientalism. His pictures contain an atmosphere and significance far beyond the documentary.” See Y. Zalmona, Abel Pann 1883-1963 in: Mayanot Gallery Catalogue, Jerusalem (1987).