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1966ref. 129889N.P.: n.p. 1966. Limited Editions Club. framed painting 34 by 28 inches. A framed painting depicting a guard at the fortress and monastic community at Qumran. Shraga Weil 1918-2009 was an Israeli artist. Born in Prague in 1918 he studied at the National School of Arts there. He served in the Hungarian resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war he joined the exodus to Israel. He received training in monumental and graphic techniques at the Academy of Arts in Paris in 1953. He worked as a designer and illustrator of books during the 1950s during which time he was illustrator of The Dead Sea Scrolls New York: Limited Editions Club 1966. This work was included as an illustration in that book. In the 1960s and 1970s he created several architectural designs including the copper doors for the main entrance of the Knesset building and the residence of the President of Israel in Jerusalem. source: Knesset website and Shraga Weil website. Qumran was the location of an ancient Jewish fortress and Essene monastic community where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found beginning in 1947. n.p. unknown
1966ref. 129888N.P.: n.p. 1966. Limited Editions Club. framed painting 34 by 28 inches. A framed watercolor depicting a guard at the fortress and monastic community at Qumran. Shraga Weil 1918-2009 was an Israeli artist. Born in Prague in 1918 he studied at the National School of Arts there. He served in the Hungarian resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war he joined the exodus to Israel. He received training in monumental and graphic techniques at the Academy of Arts in Paris in 1953. He worked as a designer and illustrator of books during the 1950s during which time he was illustrator of The Dead Sea Scrolls New York: Limited Editions Club 1966. This work was offered but not used as an illustration for that book. In the 1960s and 1970s he created several architectural designs including the copper doors for the main entrance of the Knesset building and the residence of the President of Israel in Jerusalem. source: Knesset website and Shraga Weil website. Qumran was the location of an ancient Jewish fortress and Essene monastic community where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found beginning in 1947. n.p. unknown books
1966ref. 129889N.P.: n.p. 1966. Limited Editions Club. framed painting 34 by 28 inches. A framed painting depicting a guard at the fortress and monastic community at Qumran. Shraga Weil 1918-2009 was an Israeli artist. Born in Prague in 1918 he studied at the National School of Arts there. He served in the Hungarian resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war he joined the exodus to Israel. He received training in monumental and graphic techniques at the Academy of Arts in Paris in 1953. He worked as a designer and illustrator of books during the 1950s during which time he was illustrator of The Dead Sea Scrolls New York: Limited Editions Club 1966. This work was included as an illustration in that book. In the 1960s and 1970s he created several architectural designs including the copper doors for the main entrance of the Knesset building and the residence of the President of Israel in Jerusalem. source: Knesset website and Shraga Weil website. Qumran was the location of an ancient Jewish fortress and Essene monastic community where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found beginning in 1947. n.p. unknown books
1904ref. Pro4PROUST Jeanne WEIL 1849-1905 5th December 1904 original period film print. Round photography 159 cm diameter mounted on thick paper frame in the photographer's name.Tiny spot on lower margin of the mounting small stainStamp on verso from collection Suzy Mante-Proust collection One of Jeanne Weil Proust's last portraits less than a year before her death This portrait was taken on December 5th 1904. At this time aged 56 years old Proust's mother has been a widow for a year. The translation of his son's The Bible of Amiens was published that same year. She died of nephritis a year later on September 26 1905. Nadar did process her portrait and removed the shadows and various flaws on her face. Michel Schneider notes that the narrator's mother in the Search is obviously inspired by the mother of the author himself. Jeanne Proust was born Jeanne Weil in 1849 from a Jewish family of the enlightened bourgeoisie. Much has been said about the intellectual complicity that united her with elder son. Marcel Proust who during his mother's lifetime wrote only beautifulthings in the spirit of the time Pleasures and Days will not become the novelist of the Search until after the death his mother an event that has somehow freed his creation. In the novel the grief he felt at his death is shifted to that of the grandmother and that of Albertine. In the Search Mom doesn't die she is also mentioned more than 500 times. Provenance: -Proust Family -Suzy Mante-Proust only daughter of Robert Proust by descent -Patricia Mante-Proust granddaughter of Suzy Mante-Proust by descent References: Nadar repr. p. 32 in full. Cattaui n° 59 repr. Mauriac repr. p. 10.
2012ref. AME_9780071792738Mcgraw Hill 2012. 11TH. Hardcover. New/New. _ Mcgraw Hill hardcover
ref. 141347New York: Vincent FitzGerald 1987. Japanese style binding in purple and green Japanese cloth matching fold-over case. FitzGerald & Co. Vincent. 9 x 12 inches. Japanese style binding in purple and green Japanese cloth matching fold-over case. 40 pages. Interpreted by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. Privately printed by Vincent FitzGerald in an edition of 65 copies signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke of which this is one of 50 copies available for sale. A fine copy in fine clamshell box. Text and titling printed by Daniel Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress in typefaces created by Dan Carr & Julia Ferrarie at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry and printed on Moulin du Gue Japanese papers. Calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. With 62 etchings by Marjorie Van Dyke assisted by Maria Luisa Rojo at The Printmaking Workshop employing over 150 plates original watercolors collage and hand cutting printed on Moulin de Gue paper and Japanese papers. The texts of the forty epiphanies are printed in full and those selected for interpretation are assigned thematic divisions: "Planes" "Death" "Dreams" and "Games" with Weil undertaking the first two sections and Van Dyke the latter two. The thematic sectional titles to the divisions of the illustrative matter are keyed numerically to the relevant epiphanies in the text. Lithography by Rhae Burden and Collage creation by Zahra Partovi. Bound loose in hand-made box by David Bourbeau at his Thistle Bindery covered with Japanese hand-made silk with an incised line of Japanese tea paper showing a profile of Joyce. This book covering death word games / puns how a person dreams while sleeping and planes is considered a high-spot of Vincent FitzGerald & Company. Vincent FitzGerald unknown
ref. 141347New York: Vincent FitzGerald 1987. Japanese style binding in purple and green Japanese cloth matching fold-over case. FitzGerald & Co. Vincent. 9 x 12 inches. Japanese style binding in purple and green Japanese cloth matching fold-over case. 40 pages. Interpreted by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. Privately printed by Vincent FitzGerald in an edition of 65 copies signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke of which this is one of 50 copies available for sale. A fine copy in fine clamshell box. Text and titling printed by Daniel Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress in typefaces created by Dan Carr & Julia Ferrarie at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry and printed on Moulin du Gue Japanese papers. Calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. With 62 etchings by Marjorie Van Dyke assisted by Maria Luisa Rojo at The Printmaking Workshop employing over 150 plates original watercolors collage and hand cutting printed on Moulin de Gue paper and Japanese papers. The texts of the forty epiphanies are printed in full and those selected for interpretation are assigned thematic divisions: "Planes" "Death" "Dreams" and "Games" with Weil undertaking the first two sections and Van Dyke the latter two. The thematic sectional titles to the divisions of the illustrative matter are keyed numerically to the relevant epiphanies in the text. Lithography by Rhae Burden and Collage creation by Zahra Partovi. Bound loose in hand-made box by David Bourbeau at his Thistle Bindery covered with Japanese hand-made silk with an incised line of Japanese tea paper showing a profile of Joyce. This book covering death word games / puns how a person dreams while sleeping and planes is considered a high-spot of Vincent FitzGerald & Company. Vincent FitzGerald unknown books