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Haggadah shel Pesach.

Stock Code 94472

London, Capepark Ltd, 1985

Original price $9,939.00 - Original price $9,939.00
Original price $9,939.00
$9,939.00
$9,939.00 - $9,939.00
Current price $9,939.00
One of nine signed by the artist. A modern Haggadah with hand-printed illustrations by Yaacov Agam: 'All colour separations were produced by the artist, all screens used for each image were destroyed'. Printed in Paris by Atelier Arcay, a total of 584 were printed of this Haggadah, numbered for three editions of 180 each, an A.P. (Artist's Proof) edition of 27, an H.C. (Hors Commerce) edition of 9 (as here) and an edition of 8 on vellum.

Yaakov Agam (b. 1928) is an Israeli artist and sculptor based in Paris, best known for his contribution to optical and kinetic art. He had a retrospective exhibition in Paris at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in 1972, and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1980, among others. His works are held in numerous museum collections including the MOMA, and he is the only Israeli artist who has been chosen to be included in the Centre Pompidou Mobile - the travelling museum exhibition of the Centre Pompidou (2012-2013).

His works are abstract and extremely colourful, many were placed in public spaces. His best known pieces include Double Metamorphosis III (1965), Visual Music Orchestration (1989) and fountains at the La Défense district in Paris (1975) and the Fire and Water Fountain in the Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv (1986).

No. 3 of 9 Hors Commerce, of a total edition of 584, introductory leaf, first & last prints signed by the illustrator. 58 original serigraphs, 'pulled by hand on Rivs 270 gr. (Arjomarie-Prioux) by Atelier Arcay in Paris'. Text in Hebrew with English in Preface. Exquisite velvet binding, with gilt lettering and ornament, matching original solander box, slightly rubbed (520 x 425 mm). A fine copy.

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Haggadah shel Pesach.

[HAGGADAH]. AGAM, Yaacov (illustrator).

Stock code: 94472

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