Auction 15
A Special Major Sale. Part 1: The Bloch Family Collection - Australia, and Other Items of Judaica.
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Nov 25, 2024
Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 37:
Unique Brass Mezuzah by the Bezalel Artist Zelig Segal. Israel, ca. 1990
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Unique Brass Mezuzah by the Bezalel Artist Zelig Segal. Israel, ca. 1990
Fine, original brass Mezuzah, designed and handmade by the important artist Zelig Segal. The Mezuzah is shaped as a long widening brass cone. At its top, Segal cut the Hebew letter 'ש'.
The Mezuzah is signed by Zelig and dated to the 1990s.
"Who is Zelig Segal? A man of contradictions: since Zelig Segal is an inventor, a man playing freely yet at the same time, limiting the form and matter he uses. A visual rationalist who bears within deep sorrow. He is an artist seeking simultaneously unity and division, the permanent and the changing. Yet, above all, Zelig Segal is an artist who is enslaved to what is beautiful, a creator who confirms with his designs the three classical unities of beauty - unity of multiplicity, unity of the sensory and unity of infinity in what is finite" (the art scholar Gideon Ofrat).
Zelig Segal: an Israeli designer, sculptor and Judaica artist.
Zelig was born in Jerusalem in 1933 and grew up in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood. His mother was the midwife of the Yishuv of Hebron and his father, a Melamed of the Etz Chaim Talmud Torah of the Mazkeret Moshe neighborhood. In his youth, he studied in a Cheider and later, at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva and the Torat Emet Yeshiva of Chabad.
Height: 10 cm. Weight: 33 gr. Signed.
| Weight: | 33 gr |
| Measurement: | 4 x 10 cm |
