Bidspirit auction | Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970) – Dove

Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970) – Dove – Two Sketches - Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), Dove, two sketches for the same work. Pencil on paper; watercolor and gold paint on paper. A sketch and a finished work (presumably a sketch for print). The dove is designed as a mosaic, a technique Raban employed at two different periods in his life – in the 1920s, and primarily in his illustrations for the Song of Songs (see Ze'ev Raban, a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 120), and in the 1950s-1960s, for instance in his work Way of Life (1967; see Raban Remembered, p. 87). 14X11 cm. Good condition. Creases, closed tears and open tears to pencil sketch. Literature: 1. Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001. 2. Raban Remembered: Jerusalem's Forgotten Master. New York: Yeshiva University, 1982. Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.