Abel Pann

The Bible (Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge. Complete Portfolio of 25 Original Lithographs)

Abel Pann's first great set of original, Biblical lithographs, The Bible, Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, (The Complete Portfolio of 25 Original Color Lithographs) was published in Jerusalem in 1924. To create, print and publish these original lithographs in Jerusalem at this time was in itself a major challenge. Several years earlier Abel Pann had brought to Jerusalem its first lithographic press. As nobody there was familiar with the art of lithography the Israeli artist, Abel Pann took it upon himself to be both artist and printer. This set contains a publisher's note, printed in both English and Hebrew, and entitled, "To the Subscribers". It sheds light upon some of the difficulties that had to be overcome:

"We crave the indulgence of our subscribers for the long delays in publication of the first volume of the Bible Pictures. It was our ambition to carry out this work in that Land (Israel) in which the Book was created and where for the first time in history it has been painted by the hand of an artist, who is a son of the people whose genius created the Book. In defiance of the sceptical smiles at such an ambition we confidently began our work and may say that the results are not disappointing. It is superfluous to recount the many technical difficulties which we had to overcome in issuing this volume, such as delay in collecting the printing materials from abroad and the lack of technical assistance, as a result of which the artist was himself obliged to prepare 300 lithographic stones for the reproductions. This was of course a tremendous task, but at the same time made it possible for these twenty five pictures of the first volume to contain all the masterful technique of Pann's own work. We hope the experience of the past will help us in issuing the second volume: From the 'Deluge' to the 'Patriarchs'. The Palestine Art Publishing Co., Ltd. Jerusalem, September 1924".

Sets of The Bible were published in both hand signed and unsigned versions. This set is signed only in the stone, under the images. As the number of subscribers is unknown thus the edition size is unknown. Both hand signed and stone signed impressions appear on the market but the complete set (as is here the case) is rarely found.

Complete Portfolio of 25 Original Lithographs by the Israeli artist, Abel Pann.

The Bible - Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge

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Abel Pann (Kreslawka, Vitebsk, White Russia, 1883 - Jerusalem, 1963)
#	Image	Title, Medium & Artist	Medium	Date	Publisher
01-		The Bible - Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge (The Complete Portfolio of Twenty-Five Original Lithographs) by the Israeli artist, Abel Pann	25 Original Lithographs	1924	The Palestine Art Publishing Company, Jerusalem
02.-		The Five Books of Moses (Complete Portfolio of Forty Seven Original, Hand-Signed Lithographs) by the Israeli artist, Abel Pann	47 Original, Lithographs	1930	The Palestine Art Publishing Company, Jerusalem

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Eight Examples of Abel Pann's original lithographs from The Bible (Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge)
#	Click below to view larger Image	Title, Medium & Artist	Medium	Date
01-		Frontispiece: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, Plate I. Original lithograph by Abel Pann.	Original Color Lithograph	1924
02.-		And there was light, Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, Plate III. Original lithograph by Abel Pann.	Original Color Lithograph	1924
03-		And God made... the greater light..., Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, Plate V. Original lithograph by Abel Pann.	Original Color Lithograph	1924
04.-		And God made... the lesser light..., Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, Plate VI. Original lithograph by Abel Pann.	Original Color Lithograph	1924
05-		And god said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature..., Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, Plate VIII. Original lithograph by Abel Pann.	Original Color Lithograph	1924
06.-		And He took one of his ribs, Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, Plate X. Original lithograph by Abel Pann.	Original Color Lithograph	1924
07.-		Ye will surely not die, Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, Plate XII, Original lithograph by Abel Pann.	Original Color Lithograph	1924
08.-		Jubal, Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, Plate XXIV, Original lithograph by Abel Pann.	Original Color Lithograph	1924

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#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Artists	Notes	-
01.-		Rooster by the Israeli artist, Amram Ebgi	Original Deep Etching	c. 1970 - 1980	Ebgi, Amram (Morocco, 1939 - Resides, Israel)	Signed in pencil, and annotated, "A/P" (Artist Proof) 10 by Amram Ebgi.
02.-		Horsemen by Isreali artist, Nissan Engel	Original Photo-Lithograph	c. 1973	Engel, Nissan (Born, Haifa, Israel, 1931 - Resides, Paris)	Signed and numbered, '41/125', by Nissan Engel in pencil along the lower margin.	Sold
03.-		Untitled Composition by the Israeli artist, Mireille Kramer	Original Deep Etching & Aquatint	c. 1970	Kramer, Mireille (Cairo, Egypt, 1932 - Resides, Ein Hod, Israel)	Signed in pencil and numbered, ‘32 / 125’ by Mireille Kramer along the lower margin.
04.-		Portrait Study, Safed by the Israeli artist, Arieh Merzer	Original watercolor	1962	Merzer, Arieh (Warsaw, Poland, 1905 - Safed, Israel, 1966)	Signed and dated by Arieh Merzer to the lower left	Sold
05.-		View in Palestine by the German / Israeli artist, Jakob Nussbaum	Original Drypoint Engraving	1925	Nussbaum, Jakob (Rhina (Germany), 1873 - Afula (Israel), 1936)	Signed in pencil by Jakob Nussbaum along the lower right margin, and signed and dated with his ‘JN’ monogram in the plate to the lower left.	Sold
06.-		The Bible - Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge by the Israeli artist, Abel Pann	The Complete Portfolio of 25 Original Color Lithographs	1924	Pann, Abel (Kreslawka, Vitebsk, White Russia, 1883 - Jerusalem, 1963)	Signed in the stone by Abel Pann, under the images.
07.-		The Five Books of Moses by the Israeli artist, Abel Pann	Complete Portfolio of 47 Original Lithographs	1930	Pann, Abel (Kreslawka, Vitebsk, White Russia, 1883 - Jerusalem, 1963)	Signed in pencil by Abel Pann (within the images), and signed in the stone (below the images).
08.-		Harbour by the German / Israeli artist, Jacob Pins 'Yaacov Pins	Original Woodcut in Two Colours	1955	Pins, Jacob 'Yaacov' (Hoexter, Germany, 1917 - Jerusalem, Israel, 2005)	Signed, dated and numbered, '22/33'in pencil by Jacob Pins (in both English and Hebrew) along the lower margin.
09.-		Peacock by the Polish / Israeli artist, Pinchas Shaar	Original Color Lithograph	c. 1970	Shaar, Pinchas (Lotz, Poland, 1923 - Israel, 1996)	Signed and numbered, '68/100', by Pinchas Shaar in pencil along the lower margin.
10.-		Righteous by the Israeli artist, David Sharir	Original Silkscreen (Serigraph)	c. 1980	Sharir, David (Israel, Born, 1938 - Resides, Jaffa, Israel)	Signed and numbered, '1/250' by David Sharir in pencil on the lower margin, and also bears the 'transworld art' seal on the verso.
11.-		Beggars Sleeping Outdoors by the Russian / Israeli artist, Miron Sima	Original Colour Woodcut	1959	Sima, Miron (Proskurov, Russia, 1902 - Jerusalem, 1999)	Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/35' by Miron Sima in white conte crayon along the lower margin.	Sold
12.-		Summer by the Israeli artist, Yigal Zemer	Original Embossed Intaglio	1977	Zemer, Yigal (Born, Kibutz Beit Alfa, Israel, 1938 - Resides, Tel Aviv)	Signed, titled, dated and numbered, “57/75”, by Yigal Zemer in pencil along the lower margin, and bears the artist’s “Y.ZE” blindstamp to the lower right.

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Title:	The Bible - Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge (The Complete Portfolio of 25 Original Color Lithographs)
Artist:	Pann, Abel (Kreslawka, Vitebsk, White Russia, 1883 - Jerusalem, 1963)
Date:	1924
Medium:	The Complete Portfolio of 25 Original Color Lithographs
Publisher:	The Palestine Art Publishing Company, Jerusalem
Note:	Abel Pann: A prominent and influential member of the first generation of Israeli artists, Abel Pann first studied art techniques in Vitebsk, under Yehuda Pen. He then travelled within Russia and Poland, earning a living mostly as a sign painter. In 1898 Abel Pann enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, Odessa. Five years later he visited Kishinev and chronicled the impoverished living conditions of the pogrom residents there. This would form the genesis of the drawings and lithographs he made during World War One concerning the extreme sufferings of those living in the Russian pogroms. Pann was in Paris during the war and intended to publish his lithographs of the Russian pogroms under the title, Road of Tears; however, the Russian Minister in Paris convinced French officials to forbid its publication.
	Abel Pann first moved to Paris in 1903, renting rooms in a building which was called, 'La Ruche' ('The Hive'). Other occupants there included Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani. Pann enrolled at the Academie des Beaux-Arts to study painting under Bourguereau. At the same time he began illustrating for journals and newspapers. By 1912 Abel Pann had established enough recognition for his art that Boris Schatz, the founder and first director of the Bezalel Academy of Arts, invited him to work in Jerusalem. Pann visited the city in the following year and decided to make it his permanent home. He returned to Paris to settle his affairs but was forced to stay there due to the outbreak of the First World War (1914-1918). At this time he created posters and prints for the Allied Cause, as well as the suppressed Road of Tears portfolio of lithographs.
	Pann permanently settled in Jerusalem in 1920. In this year his paintings, drawings and lithographs were the subject of a large exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Consequently in the following years there were many American collectors of his art.
	Abel Pann took a teaching post at the Bezalel Academy and imported a lithographic press from Vienna, which was the first in Jerusalem. He began working almost immediately on the lithographs for The Bible (1924) and The Five Books of Moses (1930), and dedicated most of his efforts to these lithographic portfolios during the decade. In fact he resigned from his teaching post at the Academy in 1924 to devote all his energies to the Biblical lithographs.
	Abel Pann's later years saw their share of misfortunes. As the decade of the Depression took its toll, customers, both at home and abroad, for his lithographs and paintings diminished. As well, the twentieth century taste for abstraction and other avante guarde movements slotted his representational style as archaic. Pann lost a son in the Israeli War of Independence and dedicated his final years mostly to paintings images relating to the Holocaust.
	Today the fine art of Abel Pann is included in the permanent collections of the Hecht Museum, University of Haifa, Haifa Museum of Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jewish Museum, Prague, Duke University Library, and the Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas.
Provenance:	The Bible - Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge created by Abel Pann hails from the estate of LeRoy Latham (1874-1938) and thence to his heirs. LeRoy Latham was Chairman of Latham Lithographing Company (Latham Litho & Printing Co.). Situated in Brooklyn, New York, it was one of America's largest lithographic printing establishments in the early twentieth century. His large print collection consisted of many fine examples of French and British nineteenth century lithographs as well as contemporary lithographs, etchings and wood engravings.
Size:	16 3/4 X 12 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of paper margins.)
Buy Now	Price: $2,200.00 US
Condition:	This set is signed only in the stone, under the images. As each of the sheets was initially bound into the portfolio in the manner of a three-ring binder there are three small holes on the right hand margins. Three sheets of introductory text as well as the Frontispiece lithograph (Eve Offering the Apple to Adam) are printed on a thinner wove paper. As such the binding holes have given way. The remaining twenty four lithographs are printed on a much thicker wove paper which has also been reinforced with a linen backing along the right margin. The binding holes on each of these lithographs is thus completely intact.
	Sight water staining is evident in the extreme lower margins of several lithographs. In every case it is well removed from both the actual image and the stone signature under it. As well, the boards of the portfolio contain some scuffing and staining. Else each lithograph is in very good condition throughout without a trace of light staining or toning. In all this complete set of The Bible, Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge (The Complete Portfolio of 25 Original Color Lithographs) represents both a scarce and important, original example of the art of Abel Pann and of early Israeli lithography.
	Complete list of twenty-five original lithographs by Abel Pann for The Bible: 01.- Frontispiece: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, 02.- And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, 03.- And there was light, 04.- Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, 05.- And God made… the greater light…, 06.- And God made… the lesser light…, 07.- And God created great whales, 08.- And god said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature…, 09.- And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life…, 10.- And He took one of his ribs, 11.- The Garden of Eden, 12.- Ye will surely not die, 13.- And gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat, 14.- Where art thou?, 16.- The Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, 17.- The wandering of Adam and Eve, 18.- And Abel was a keeper of sheep, 19.- Cain was a tiller of the ground, 20.- Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him, 21.- And now art thou cursed…, 22.- Fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be on earth, 23.- Abel’s funeral procession, 24.- Jubal, 25.- Tubal-cain, 26.- Finis.
Note:	Note: LeRoy Latham's original notes concerning Abel Pann and The Bible are included with this purchase.
Subject:	Abel Pann, The Bible, Genesis: From the Creation until the Deluge, The Complete Portfolio of 25 Original Color Lithographs, Jerusalem's first lithographic press, Russian pogroms, LeRoy Latham, early Israeli lithography.
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