Bidspirit auction | SCHATZ, BORIS . Chayav VeYetzirothav

SCHATZ, BORIS . Chayav VeYetzirothav - Monografia = Boris Schatz, His Life and Work - Monography. One of 300 copies, signed and numbered by Schatz. Title-pages in English and Hebrew in red and black. Frontispiece portrait and 40 photographic plates of works by Schatz. Descriptions to each plate on verso in Hebrew and Yiddish. Finely bound in original calf with gilt design and lettering, upper cover with metal inlay depicting Jews at prayer. Few leaves dampsoiled. Folio. Vienna - Jerusalem Union for Bne Bezalel, 1925. The founder of the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem, Boris Schatz (1866-1932) is considered the father of art of modern Israel.