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

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 282

RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER.

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

30 tinted and black-and-white lithographs (including title) numbered III-XXXI, All complete, WITH INDEX-CARD LAID-IN AT END (missing from most copies) Later boards with pictorial portions of the original suede covers retained. Oblong folio (sheet size 330x490 mm) Jüdische Lebenswelten Katalog, Berlin (1991) no. 7/25 (illustrated)

Berlin: Schwellen Verlag 1923

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

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 the artist’s father was killed. This profound series of lithographs portrays the ravaged Shtetl and expresses Ryback’s grief for a world he abandoned and was 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); C. Roth, Jewish Art col.803