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Catalog of an Exhibition in Memory of Boris Schatz - Bezalel, Jerusalem, 1933 - Boris Schatz (23 December 1866 – 23 March 1932) was a Lithuanian Jewish artist and sculptor who settled in Palestine. Schatz, who became known as the ”father of Israeli art,” founded the Bezalel School in Jerusalem . The catalog contains: • An introduction: the program of the exhibition, a short list of dates from Schatz's life articles by prof. Yosef Klausner and M. Narkis, bibliography of the catalog. • 466 numbered works of art, including a short description of each, from the days of Schatz in Vilnius (1882-1887), through Warsaw, Paris, Sofia and Jerusalem (1906-1932). • Two works are not numbered yet described and five works ”have been lost or cannot be exhibited”. Published by the National Museum of Bezalel, 1933. 50 pp. soft cover, 21x16 cm. Condition: Slight stains and tears with no damage to text.