Mas LeHagnateinu [“Tax for our Defense”]. Designed by Ir-Shai.
AUCTION 63 |
Thursday, November 13th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 341
(ISRAEL, STATE OF).
Mas LeHagnateinu [“Tax for our Defense”]. Designed by Ir-Shai.
Israel, February, 1948:
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,200
Budapest-born Pesach (Istvan) Ir Shai (1896-1968) was one of Israel’s most innovative graphic artists who greatly contributed to the new state’s sensibility of modernist design.