[Rarebooks] FS: Arieh Merzer - Biblical Images: THREE PLATES SIGNED IN THE MAT

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FS: Arieh Merzer -   Biblical Images:  THREE PLATES SIGNED IN THE MAT

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Merzer, Arieh Biblical Images: Sixteen Reliefs in Metal. THREE PLATES SIGNED
IN THE MAT. Safed Israel: Kyriat Hatzayarim, 1960. About 14 x 10 inches,
cardboard multi-flap porfolio with 16-page catalog in English and Hebrew,
plus the 16 panels with tipped-on photographic plates Merzer’s bas-relief
work in metal. Three of these are SIGNED in ink in the mat, in European
script and in Hebrew. (scans on request). The glassine jacket is missing.
The always-fragile portfolio is worn on outer edges, and one flap fold is
separating. The pastedown on the front (English version) flap is damaged
with creases, tears and chips. The pastedown on the Hebrew flap has several
horizontal creases. The plates themselves are in very good conditon, with
one having a smudge of soil near the edge (not near the paste-down) and the
tissue guards are largely missing.

Portfolio including three signed plates: $75 plus shipping

Arieh Merzer (1905-1966) was born in Poland and studied and exhibited in
Warsaw. In 1930 he moved to Paris and exhibited in many shows and salons
there. He was incarcerated in a concentration camp during the Nazi
occupation of France in World War II, from which he escaped in 1943 and fled
to Switzerland. His parents and his 13 siblings died in the concentration
camps during the Holocaust. Mezer exhibited in Geneva in 1945, and moved to
Safed, Israel in late 1945 where he continued to live and work until his
death. He was part of a movement in his early years in Warsaw to revive the
ancient Jewish art of metal-hammering, an art form with which he came to be
identified. Among the awards he received were the Herman Struck Prize
(1946), the Dizengoff Prize (1951 & 1965) and the Mayor of Haifa's Prize
(1954).

Lee Kirk
Cats are composed of Matter, Anti-Matter, and It Doesn't Matter

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