Der Nister (Pinchas Kahanovich). Mayselech in Ferzen ["Tales in Verse"].

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 293

(CHAGALL, MARC).

Der Nister (Pinchas Kahanovich). Mayselech in Ferzen ["Tales in Verse"].

Yiddish text. Cover designed by CHAGALL with additional illustration of a goat on title-page pp. 60, (4). Lightly browned. Original pictorial front pictorial wrapper bound into red titled boards. 8vo

Warsaw: Kultur Lige 1921

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

This enlarged edition includes the two original stories by Der Nister from the first edition (Vilna, 1917). The image of the goat is a continuous motif in Chagall’s art - a symbolic reference to the artist’s original family name “Segel”/Tsigel (Yiddish, for goat). See Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution no. 144 and no. 144 vi and fig. 25 (illustrated)