2. #1, These are dirt cheap prices even today.
The original prices were probably closer to a mere 500 dollars, or perhaps even less. Granted the state was more openly socialist back then, but I know many Israelis have original art in their homes rather than reproductions, and when that art comes onto the market as the first generation of Israelis born post statehood passes on, Israeli art will take a place at the international table. It will become a commodity.
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