Palestine - 10 Views.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $750

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author

RABAN, ZE’EV.

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Bezalel

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

(1931)

Description

Each plate matted, with tissue-guard. Original calf portfolio, gilt, with metal inlay of David’s Citadel, Jerusalem.

summary

Ten plates reproducing legendary views of Biblical cities composed by Raban in a Jugendstil-Orientalist style. See Tel Aviv Museum Catalogue, Ze'ev Raban: A Hebrew Symbolist. ( 2001) pp. 122-123, nos. 156, 158, 160, 161; Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Raban Remembered (1982) no. 71.

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