Viennese Transit.

AUCTION 76 | Thursday, June 14th, 2018 at 3:00 PM

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 359

(SOVIET UNION)

Viennese Transit.

Oil on canvas. Titled and signed in Cyrillic lower right. Titled on verso. Framed. 26 x 52 inches (66 x 132.1 cm).

Moscow, 1998:

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

This large canvas humorously riffs on the popular idea that every Soviet immigrant Jew transiting in Vienna on their way to Israel was either a pianist or a violinist.