JEWISH JUDAICA PAINTING BY ABEL PANN BEZALEL RABBI RETAILED BY MARSHALL FIELD CO.CHICAGO 1914 FOR 18.00 Start Price USD 700.00 Current Price USD 700.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 999.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, August 29, 2008 End Time Friday, September 05, 2008 Location Los Angeles, California See more about 'JEWISH JUDAICA PAINTING BY ABEL PANN BEZALEL RABBI' Description A RARE COLORED CHALK PAINTING ON PAPER BY THE GREAT BEZALEL SCHOOL TEACHER ABEL PFEFFERMANN PANN 1883 - 1963 OF A JEWISH BOY PAINTED CIRCA 1910. THE SIZE IS 10 INCHES X 15 INCHES.PANN ARRIVED AT THE BEZALEL SCHOOL IN 1913 WITH AHARON SCHUR AND IMMEDIETLY STARTED TO TEACH TO PAINT.HE HEADED THE PAINTING DEPT.WITH LAZAR KRESTIN FROM 1913-1914 AND 1920-1924.HE ESTABLISHED THE GRAPHICA BEZALEL FOR LITHOGRAPHIC WORKS.HE IS CONSIDERED WITH LAZAR KRESTIN AND ZEV RABAN AS THE MOST IMPORTANT TEACHERS IN THE BEZALEL SCHOOL.IN 1914 HE LEFT FOR PARIS AND RETURNED TO ERETZ ISRAEL IN 1920.HE WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF ISRAELI ART,BEST KNOWN FOR HIS VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF BIBLICAL CHARACTERS AS REAL FLESH AND BLOOD HUMANS WITH ORIENTAL FEATURES AND PASSIONATE FEELINGS.REUVEN RUBIN CALLED HIM THE MOST IMFLUENTAL TEACHER IN ISRAEL AS A STUDENT HIMSELF IN 1915.WHAT IS MOST UNUSUALL ABOUT THIS PAINTING IT HAS AN ORIGINAL LABEL ON THE BACK FROM MARSHALL FIELD AND CO, IN CHICAGO WITH THE OWNERS NAME BASIL ZABAR AND A PRICE OF 18.00 ,IT APPEARS THAT THIS PAINTING UNSOLD AT THE 1914 BEZALEL EXHIBIT IN CHICAGO WAS GIVEN TO MARSHAL FIELD TO SELL,AS PAINTING IN THE 1912 N.Y. EXHIBIT LATER ENDED UP AT MACYS AND TIFFANYS,PLEASE READ BEZALEL 1906-1929 EDITED BY NURIT SHILO-COHEN PAGE 326 -327.THE CONDITION OF THE PAINTING IS FAIR FOR ITS AGE .BEING ON PAPER IT HAS OVERALL BROWNING FROM AGING AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OF PATCHES OF BRIGHT WHITE PAPER,MOST LIKELY WHERE THE BACKER WAS NOT TOUCHING THE PAPER.THE PIECE IS SEALED NICELY IN A SOLID DARK OAK.ARTS AND CRAFT FRAME ,WHICH HELPS DATE THIS PAINTING TO PRIOR TO 1920.WITH THE GLASS COVER IT WAS DIFFICULT TO PHOTOGRAPH THIS ITEM WITOUT A GLARE.BUT IT IS A SMALL GEM.PAINTINGS BY PANN EASILLY SELL FOR OVER $ 20.000 AT ISRAELI AUCTIONS,DRAWINGS LIKE THIS ONE ARE PERHAPS MORE RARE AS NOT TOO MANY SURVIVED.HE IS ALSO VERY WELL REPRESENTED IN THE ISRAELI MUSEUM COLLECTION. IN 1916 HE CREATED A SERIES OF DRAWINGS OF THE POGROMS IN RUSSIA WHICH LATER BECAME KNOWN AS "THE TEAR JUG".IN 1921 HE BROUGHT A PRINTING PRESS FROM VIENNA AND BEGAN TO PRINT HIS ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIBLE.IN 1924 HE RESIGNED FROM BEZALEL.AND HELD MANY EXHIBITS WORLWIDE ESPECIALLY IN THE U.S. HE DIED IN 1963 IN JERUSALEM AND WAS EULOGIZED BY REUVEN RUBIN THE GREATEST ISRAELI ARTIST OF THE TIME AND HIS STUDENT. Place a Bid!