Shtetl. Mayn Chorever Heym, a Gedeknish [“My Destroyed Home. A Memorial”]

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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Lot 414

RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER

Shtetl. Mayn Chorever Heym, a Gedeknish [“My Destroyed Home. A Memorial”]

NUMBER 32 OF 50 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY RYBACK. 30 tinted and black-and-white lithographs (including title) numbered III-XXXI, all complete Trace foxed on first few leaves. Original pictorial blue suede, gently rubbed at extremities. Oblong folio (sheet size 330x490 mm)

Berlin: Schwellen Verlag 1923

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

Following the retreat of Ukranian Nationalist forces from the Russian Red Army in 1919, mass killings of Jews took place. One such pogrom broke out in Ryback’s birthplace, Yelizavetgrad (presently, Kirovograd), in which his father was killed. This profound series of lithographs portrays the ravaged Shtetl and expresses the artist’s grief for a world abandoned and now destroyed. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 (1987) no.136 i-xxx (illustrated); Jüdische Lebenswelten Katalog, Berlin (1991) no.7/25 (illustrated)