Sacred Splendor: Judaica from the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection | Judaica

November 20, 2019

Sacred Splendor: Judaica from the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection | Judaica | Sotheby’s

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ILYA SCHORUkrainian1904 - 1961HASSIDIC FIGURES, “DIG, DANCE, AND DAVEN”signed I. Schor (lower right)pen and ink and gouache on parchment paper cutout on gold underlaysight, 8¼ x 11⅞ in.21 x 30 cm

The Judaica collection of Arthur and Gitel Marx began as one of Judaica silver and paintings and gradually expanded to Hebrew Books and Manuscripts. Their choices were guided by a search for quality and the countries of origin were secondary to the uniqueness and rarity of the item. Hand in hand with collecting silver and books, the couple collected paintings by the greatest masters of Jewish Art, including Isidor Kaufmann and Edouard Brandon. Click ahead for a closer look at the breadth of the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection and some of its most important objects which come to auction on 20 November in New York. [More]