Broderzon, Moishe. Sichas Chulin

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 276

(LISSITZKY, EL)

Broderzon, Moishe. Sichas Chulin

ONE OF 90 COPIES. Lithograph on paper. Title page, dedication and 15 text pages all surrounded by Lissitzky’s modernist design. Yiddish text written in “Assyrian script” (Lissitzky’s term for Hebrew square letters) in a traditional calligraphic style Browned. Later boards. 225x300 mm Shmeruk 2538; Busch-Reisinger Museum Catalogue, El Lissitzky (1987) no. 1917/1; IMC, Tradition and Revolution pp.104-5 and 176-77. And see, A. Rudenstine, The George Costakis Collection - Russian Avant-Garde Art (1981) p. 243

Moscow: Chaver Verlag 1917

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

Folk story of Jewish Messianic hope and miracles in Old Prague. Parallels the exhilaration felt among Russia’s avant-garde Jews concerning the apocalyptic course of the Russian Revolution. This, Lissitzky’s first consciously Jewish work, created a new aesthetic experience, integrating religious and cultural origins and transforming them into a regenerated secular perspective