Foyglen [“Birds”]. Children’s poetry by LEIB KVITKO

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 514

(RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER)

Foyglen [“Birds”]. Children’s poetry by LEIB KVITKO

With color pictorial wrappers, title page and 14 illustrations by RYBACK pp.16. Lightly browned, extreme lower corner of a few leaves marginally chipped. Oblong 4to Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution, no.137 i-xiv (illustrated)

Berlin: Farlag Shveln 1922

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,800

The influence of early nineteenth-century Russian woodcuts interspersed with strong Cubist sculptural elements are most clearly apparent in Ryback’s graphic black-and-white illustrations of birds for this book of children’s poetry. The vase of flowers represented in vibrant colors on the lower wrapper is a motif borrowed from Jewish tombstone carvings