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Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970) – Collection of Sketches – Book of Ruth - Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches for the Book of Ruth. [Jerusalem, 1930]. Ink and pencil on paper. Six sketches for the Book of Ruth illustrated by Raban. Three on tracing paper; one of them, larger than the others, on gold paper. A more detailed version of one of the sketches is photographed in ”Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist”, p. 124. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Closed and open tears to edges. Stains. Enclosed: commercial sketch, presumably for a label, inscribed ”Israel 200”, with a depiction of the biblical Ruth. Literature: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001. Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.