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CHAIM LIFSHITZ (1892-1958)
The Coran in Pictures at the paintings exhibition ... America Garden Hotel. [N.p., but probably Jerusalem:] 1928. 2 posters, one of white paper (475 x 630mm) and one red paper (630 x 940mm). [With:] -- The Koran of Art. [N.p., but probably Jerusalem: n.d., but 1928.] Small 2° portfolio (345 x 250mm). 20 photographs of Lifshitz's Koranic art (ea. 115 x 155mm) mounted on paper with printed captions in Arabic. (Faint marginal oxidisation to a few photographs.) contained in the original card portfolio, upper cover printed in red and black (extremities rubbed, spine slightly defective). Provenance: Hebrew stamps on inner portfolio flaps.
RARE EPHEMERA illustrating cross-cultural currents in Mandatory Palestine, with a Jewish artist taking the Koran as his subject. Lifshitz was born in the Ukraine, and moved to Palestine in 1926. The dates given on both exhibition posters are of June 1928, although the timings and exhibition lengths seem to be contradictory. This is probably explained by contemporary objections to the subject matter, and the exhibition seems either not to have gone ahead, or was held in a private location. The portfolio containing reproductions of Lifshitz's pictures is EXCEEDINGLY RARE, AND APPARENTLY UNRECORDED.
The Coran in Pictures at the paintings exhibition ... America Garden Hotel. [N.p., but probably Jerusalem:] 1928. 2 posters, one of white paper (475 x 630mm) and one red paper (630 x 940mm). [With:] -- The Koran of Art. [N.p., but probably Jerusalem: n.d., but 1928.] Small 2° portfolio (345 x 250mm). 20 photographs of Lifshitz's Koranic art (ea. 115 x 155mm) mounted on paper with printed captions in Arabic. (Faint marginal oxidisation to a few photographs.) contained in the original card portfolio, upper cover printed in red and black (extremities rubbed, spine slightly defective). Provenance: Hebrew stamps on inner portfolio flaps.
RARE EPHEMERA illustrating cross-cultural currents in Mandatory Palestine, with a Jewish artist taking the Koran as his subject. Lifshitz was born in the Ukraine, and moved to Palestine in 1926. The dates given on both exhibition posters are of June 1928, although the timings and exhibition lengths seem to be contradictory. This is probably explained by contemporary objections to the subject matter, and the exhibition seems either not to have gone ahead, or was held in a private location. The portfolio containing reproductions of Lifshitz's pictures is EXCEEDINGLY RARE, AND APPARENTLY UNRECORDED.