"Tel Aviv Port", original sketch for a cut-out sheet, created by Peretz Ruschkewitz. [ca. 1946].
Ink and watercolor on heavy paper. Signed: "Ruschkewitz".
Lovely colorful illustrations of boats and buildings at the Tel Aviv seaport. The illustrations were designed to be cut out and folded and are part of a series of game-boards created and published by Ruschkewitz in 1946.
Enclosed is the final sheet printed by "Parsai" in Tel Aviv, 1946. The sketch differs from the final printed sheet – some of the drawings have been printed with slight alterations to color and design, and some were replaced with other illustrations.
Sketch: 47.5X35 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases. Vertical fold. Many stains. Slight damage to the margins and tears along the fold-line (approx. 4.5 cm. tears along the fold line on the upper and lower halves of the sheet).
Final printed sheet: approx. 49X34.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and slight damage.