Extra Illustrated, Artist Proof, Signed by the Artist
Bezalel Haggadah. Pasover Festivity.
New York: The Friends of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Inc., 1984.
GRUNBERG, Maty, [artist]. The Bezalel Haggadah. Pasover Festivity. New York: The Friends of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Inc., 1984.
Full Description:
[HAGGADAH]. GRUNBERG, Maty, [artist]. The Bezalel Haggadah. Pasover Festivity. New York: The Friends of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Inc., 1984.
Signed limited edition, extra illustrated. One of 150 copies, this being the artist proof copy. Signed "A/P" Maty Grunberg" on the limitation page and on each leave. This production calls for 75 loose leaves, but our copy contains 88 illustrated leaves, each signed by the artist. Folio (20 ½ x 15 ? inches; 520 x 385 mm). The majority of the leaves are in color and a few are in black and white. Numerous leaves are printed in gold. Each print was pulled by the artist on handmade paper using a nineteenth century press and signed by the artist in Hebrew and English.
Leaves are loose and housed in a paper portfolio and black faux leather clamshell with gilt lettering. Gilt stamped initials “WB” and “MW” to inner spine of box. Box a bit smudged, but overall a fine copy.
The script is based on the design of one of Israel's leading typographers, Eliahu Koren, who rediscovered and modified nineteenth century Italian Hebrew script.
The Bezalel Haggadah was commissioned by the Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the project took five years to complete.
"In many famous Haggadot of the past the artists were unknown. Yet for some Haggadot the artists are well known. Maty Grünberg, the artistic creator of the Bezalel Haggadah was born in the town of Skopia in Yugoslavia, in 1943. His family survived the Holocaust and emigrated to Israel in 1948. Grünberg graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 1966. Since 1969, he has been living and working in London, England, has held several exhibitions and is the recipient of numerous awards. He has published several portfolios of prints, including an interpretation in serigraphy of the Book of Esther, which has been translated into English by the Israeli poet, Nathan Zach. Other portfolios by Grünberg include "The Theatre of the Absurd", with a foreword by Zach and "Second Circle of Perception", with a foreword by Arnold Wesker." (Front the front cover)
HBS 69538.
$3,000.
Price: $3,000.00
Item #69538