Auction 14
Eretz Israel, settlement, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, postcards and photographs, Judaica, Chabad, Rabbinical Letters
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Jan 10, 2022
Abraham Ferrera 1 , Jerusalem, Israel
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The auction will take place on Monday, January 10th, 2022 at 19:00 (Israel time).
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LOT 158:
Felix bonfils - Worshippers at the Western Wall. c. 1870
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Sold for: $420
Start price:
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200
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Felix bonfils - Worshippers at the Western Wall. c. 1870
Felix bonfils - A photograph of worshipers at the Western Wall. The photograph shows men from various communitys, women with shawl some are standing and some are sitting on the ground, praying at the Western Wall (without a partition between them). One of the first Photographs of worshipers at the Western Wall ever taken. c. 1870.
At the bottom left sign in the plate 'bonfils', at the bottom right the caption in French: "Mur des Juifs vue d'ensemble" - "Jewish Wall, General View".
Felix Bonfis [1831-1885], The great 19th-century photographer of the Land of Israel "What is unique about Bonfis' work is the rare quality of the photographs. The landscape, even the most sterile, becomes an artist-created work by the uncompromising angle of photography" [First Eretz Israel Photography edited by Eli Schiller and Menachem Levin, p. 92]. In the foreword to the album "Memories from the East" (published in 1877, one of Bonfils' most famous works that included hundreds of original photos of the Holy Land and the Orient), the president of the French Society for Literature and Science wrote: "The photos of F. Bonfils are one of the greatest achievements of our generation ... the man who took upon himself an expansive work Made an unbelievably important service to science with countless risks ...".
Size: 28x23 cm. Glued to a hard substrate. 36x31 cm. very good condition.
