Shtrom [“stream”]. Monthly Yiddish periodical. No. 1 and No. 2. (bound together in one volume)

AUCTION 33 | Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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Lot 37

(CHAGALL, MARC)

Shtrom [“stream”]. Monthly Yiddish periodical. No. 1 and No. 2. (bound together in one volume)

With cover illustration by MARC CHAGALL Volume I: Number. 1 - pp. 79, (1); Number. 2 - pp. (2), 80. Lightly browned. Original printed paper wrappers bound in contemporary cloth. 4to Cf. Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution (1987), no.151; Museum of Modern Art Catalogue, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934 (2002), no.372, p. 143 (illustration)

Moscow: 1922

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $700

Chagall’s striking and innovative decoration of the title letters in his cover design for the short-lived monthly periodical Shtrom, evokes the turmoil and hope for a new world-order in the wake of Russia’s Revolution. Each letter of the title contains a miniature, in black and white of a world turned upside-down