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Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
Statuette by Judith Mayer – Jewish Pioneer ("Halutz") at Rest
Opening: $200
Sold for: Unsold
Earthenware statuette by Judith Mayer. Israel, [ca. 1950s].
Earthenware, painted.
Statuette depicting a "halutz" (Jewish pioneer) – slumped against the trunk of a tree, with shoes cast aside and socks hung up on the tree, and with his "tembel hat" (typical pioneers' hat)pulled downward to cover his eyes – at rest in the field. Marked on back (both Hebrew and English): "Yehudit Judith."
Judith Mayer (b. 1927, Budapest) immigrated to Palestine in 1941. Studied ceramic art under Hedwig Grossman and Hanna Harag Zunz. Settled in Beersheba in 1958 where she established a ceramic arts studio in partnership with Yocheved Marx.
Height: 12.5 cm. Length: 20 cm. Width: 9.5 cm. Good condition.
Earthenware, painted.
Statuette depicting a "halutz" (Jewish pioneer) – slumped against the trunk of a tree, with shoes cast aside and socks hung up on the tree, and with his "tembel hat" (typical pioneers' hat)pulled downward to cover his eyes – at rest in the field. Marked on back (both Hebrew and English): "Yehudit Judith."
Judith Mayer (b. 1927, Budapest) immigrated to Palestine in 1941. Studied ceramic art under Hedwig Grossman and Hanna Harag Zunz. Settled in Beersheba in 1958 where she established a ceramic arts studio in partnership with Yocheved Marx.
Height: 12.5 cm. Length: 20 cm. Width: 9.5 cm. Good condition.
Israeliana and Zionism
Israeliana and Zionism