Bidspirit auction | Bezalel. Carved Celluloid and painted

Bezalel. Carved Celluloid and painted cover after Ze’ev Raban with Menorah, Ten Commandments and 12 tribes of Israel. The Haggadah by A. Szyk, 1950’s - Bezalel. Carved Celluloid and panted cover after Ze’ev Raban with Menorah, Ten Commandments and 12 tribes of Israel. The Haggadah by Arthur Szyk, edited by Cecil Roth, 1950’s, luxury edition In Hebrew and English Jerusalem / Tel Aviv: ”Massadah” and ”Alumoth”, Unpaginated (56 double-leaved pages). Carved Celluloid and painted hard cover. Size: 22.8 x 18 cm. Condition: cover detached; binding is loose – detached to several blocks and pages; brown stains to last leaves; staining to edges, sone wear to spine. Weight: 740 gr. Ze’ev Raban (22 September 1890 – 19 January 1970), born Wolf Rawicki (Ravitzki), was a leading painter, decorative artist, and industrial designer of the Bezalel school style, and was one of the founders of the Israeli art world.[ Arieh Allweil, painter, born 1901, Galicia. Immigrated 1920. Published series of linoleum cuts of Israeli and Biblical subjects, also illustrated a Passover Haggada and large scale murals of the Holocaust. From 1952 until his death lived in Tel Aviv, and in Safed in summer. Died 1967, Safed. Arthur Szyk (Polish: Artur Szyk [ˈar.tur ʂɨk]; see Polish phonology); June 3, 1894 – September 13, 1951[1]) was a Polish-born Jewish artist who worked primarily as a book illustrator and political artist throughout his career. Arthur Szyk was born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family in Łódź, [2][3] in the part of Poland under Russian rule in the 19th century. An acculturated Polish Jew, Szyk always proudly regarded himself both as a Pole and a Jew.[4] From 1921, he lived and created his works mainly in France and Poland; in 1937 he moved to the United Kingdom. In 1940, he settled permanently in the United States, and was granted American citizenship in 1948.