Shtetl. Mein Choruver Heim: A Gedekenish [“My Destroyed Home: A Memorial.”]
AUCTION 72 |
Thursday, March 16th,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
Lot 221
RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER.
Shtetl. Mein Choruver Heim: A Gedekenish [“My Destroyed Home: A Memorial.”]
Berlin: Verlag Schwellen 1923
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $2,400
Following the retreat of Ukrainian Nationalist forces before the Russian Red Army in 1919, mass killings of Jews occurred. One such pogrom took place in Ryback’s birthplace, Yelizavetgrad (presently, Kropyvnytskyi), killing his father. This moving series of lithographs portrays the ravaged Shtetl and expresses the artist’s grief for a world he abandoned and was subsequently destroyed.
See Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 (1987), no.136 i-xxx (illustrated); Jüdische Lebenswelten Katalog, Berlin (1991), no.7/25 (illustrated).