Bearded Jew.
AUCTION 79 |
Thursday, November 15th,
2018 at 1:00 PM
The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 229
STEIN, MODEST
Bearded Jew.
(New York), 1949:
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Modest Stein (1871–1958), born Modest Aronstam, was a Russian-born American-Jewish illustrator and close associate of the anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. He was Berkman's cousin and intended replacement in the attempted assassination in Pittsburgh in 1892 of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Later Stein abandoned active anarchism and became a successful illustrator for books and pulp magazines.