A wonderful collection of postcards, bookplates, and other designs by E. M. Lilien.

AUCTION 65 | Thursday, June 25th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 181
LILIEN, EPHRAIM MOSHE.

A wonderful collection of postcards, bookplates, and other designs by E. M. Lilien.

Two hundred and fifty-one Lilien designs housed in two binders. Also included are templates for bookplates. Accompanied by Lilien-related reference books.

Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $8,000
Ephraim Moshe Lilien (1874-1925) designs are iconic in the Jewish and Zionist visual world, with an emphasis on Biblical and Orientalist characters and landscapes. Many of Lilien’s works, principally his etchings, were made into postcards and are here featured aplenty. In addition to the postcards, the collection also includes forty-one bookplates designed by Lilien for luminaries including Martin Buber, Davis Trietsch, Berthold Feiwel and Dr. Franz Oppenheimer. Detailed provenance and related correspondence is included alongside many of the bookplates, as documented by the founding chief curator of the The Rowe Bookplate Museum, Robert J. Weinberg.