Auction 32 · Lot 370
EXCEPTIONALLY FINE BEZALEL BRASS FRAME Ze’ev Raban / Boris Schatz. Jerusalem, ca. 1920
- Estimate
- $10,000–$12,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Publication
Jerusalem, ca. 1920
Description
Rectangular frame with arched top. Two sides depict columns; top bears embossed quote from the Book of Isaiah Chap. XI:6 “And the Wolf shall Lie with the Sheep...” and below, the words “Isaiah the Prophet; Peace.” Base bears Hebrew quotation from Micha IV:3 “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares..Nation shall not lift up sword against nation...”
25” x 21 1/2”
summary
Along with Boris Schatz, Ze’ev Raban was the Bezalel School’s most noted designer. His work “evokes romanticism, sense of Biblical history and surge of Jewish national consciousness.” Yeshiva Univeristy Museum Catalogue, Raban Remembered (1982) p. 14.
This precise frame features on the front-page of Aus Alter und Neuer Zeit, 20th February, 1930. For a very similar brass frame currently on display at the Israel Museum, see the accompanying catalogue, Boris Schatz: The Father of Israeli Art (2006) p. 136. See also Israel Museum Catalogue, Bezalel, color plate no. 9, for a ceramic tile with a comparable scene.