Book of Grace. Twelve individual exquisitely illuminated panels of the Hebrew Birchat HaMazon (Grace after Meals). Each panel with Hebrew text set amidst dense illuminated surround. Accomplished in ink and gouache.

NODEL, SOL.

circa 1968.

The panels seamlessly combines the tradition of illumination alongside a contemporary imagery. “Sol Nodel is considered by…leading authorities on illumination, to be the foremost living exponent of this ancient art form.” See Exhibition Catalogue, The Art of Illumination by Sol Nodel, Klutznick Exhibition Hall, B’nai B’rith, Washington D.C. (1968) no. 28 a-l. Accompanying this lot is a copy of the catalogue in which these twelve panels were exhibited. It is not known if the artist produced further such panels, thus completing the text of the Grace after Meals in full. The panels were never published.