In Tavel fun Vent [“On the Tablet on the Wall]. By DAVID HOFSTEIN

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 502

(ALTMAN, NATHAN)

In Tavel fun Vent [“On the Tablet on the Wall]. By DAVID HOFSTEIN

Original Covers designed by NATHAN ALTMAN pp. 64. Dampstained. Original printed white-on-black wrappers, clean abrasion on upper right corner, lacking spine. 4to Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution. The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-28 (1987), no. 32 (illustrated)

Berlin: Funken Verlag 1923

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $550

Altman, who trained as a painter, sculptor and stage designer, was a master of many styles. He was influenced by the ideas of Futurism, and spent time studying reliefs from Jewish tombstones and ornaments from synagogue textiles. This cover design is Constructivist in style, with striking decorated white letters on a black board with the author’s name vertical in a bold stripe of red on white - the composition influenced by Lissitzky’s Prouns. The cover design is signed with Altman’s initials in the lower left corner