Auction 43
Objects: Judaica & Israeliana
Feb 4, 2015
Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 163:
Ze'ev Raban - Joker
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Sold for: $800
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Auction house commission: 23%
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Ze'ev Raban - Joker
Zeev Raban, Juha (Joker). Eretz Israel, [ca.1930].
Watercolor and ink on paper, ink stamped (Hebrew): "Zeev Raban, workshop for industrial art (former Gur-Aryeh and Raban), Bezalel, Yerushalem".
Drawing in color of Juha on a donkey. Inscription in English: "Jolly Jocker". From a series of playing cards with figures of Islamic history, first designed by Ze'ev Raban in 1920s. Except for Juha, Raban painted other Arab history heroes, amongst them Scheherazade and Harun El Rashid.
18X12.5 cm. Good condition, minor spotting. In a silver frame (marked). Borders of paper slightly folded and creased.
About the playing cards by Raban and the drawing (in black and white, no title) of this illustration, see: Ze'ev Raban, Jewish Symbolist. Catalogue of an exhibition in Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2001 (curator: Bat-Sheva Goldman Ida), p.131.
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