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Auction 9 · Lot 108

Yemenite Torah Scribe. Etching. Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right.

Estimate
$800–$1,000
Hammer price
$700

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

LILIEN, EPHRAIM MOSES.

Place

1914.

Description

See Tel Aviv Museum Catalogue, Painting With Light, The Photographic Aspect in the Work of E. M. Lilien (1991) p.109

summary

Nahum Sokolow wrote of Lilien’s art: “Ephraim Moses Lilien has brought forth light from darkness; from the servitude of matter he has set us onto redemption. He is the painter of Redemption...It is his passage into the hall of Muses.” ( Hazefirah, no. 63, 1902)
280x365 mm. Framed.
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