Genesis, From the Creation until the Deluge.

PANN, ABEL.

Palestine Publishing Art Co.

Jerusalem

c. 1925

25 colored and tinted lithographs on heavy, embossed paper, signed by the artist in pencil on 24 plates, frontispiece signed in the stone. Limited edition, inside cover penciled: “Numbered from 1-100, N10, Abel Pann.” Glassine sheets precede lithographs. Introductory text in Hebrew and English.

“Pann’s Biblical paintings have two aspects: On the one hand they appear to be documentary, there is an attempt to root the biblical scenes and heroes in a Mediterranean setting and in situations which appear to be authentic. On the other hand, these are the creations of a man who associated himself with French “Mystic Orientalism. His pictures contain an atmosphere and significance far beyond the documentary.” See Y. Zalmona, Abel Pann 1883-1963 in: Mayanot Gallery Catalogue, Jerusalem (1987).