The Aachen Passover Hagadah.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,400

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

author

(HAGADAH).

Place

Tel Aviv

Publication

2004

Description

Designed and illuminated by Zoya Cherkassky. 50 serigraph plates. One of 150 numbered copies, this numbered “HC. 2” and neatly designated as such in pencil at corner of each plate.

summary

Among the sources that have clearly inspired Zoya Cherkassky, the Kiev-born artist of this most original Hagadah, are early 20th-century Russian artists such as El Lissitzky and Kasimir Malevich, alongside such medieval Hebrew manuscripts as the famed Birds’ Head Haggadah.

Loose as issued in original folding-case.

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