Yidisher Folks-Ornament. Part One (all published)

YUDOVIN, SOLOMON and MALKIN, M.

Vitebsk

1920

Complete set of 26 linocuts on paper of Jewish tombstones. (Numbered 1-28; nos. 13 and 20 never issued)

IMC, Tradition and Revolution no.170 i-ixxx (illustrated); C. Shmeruk, Jewish Publications in the Soviet Union 1917-1960 [Hebrew] (1961) no.1066 (illustrated)

Published in tandem with an exhibition of Jewish folk art organized by Yudovin, held at the Y.L. Peretz Society, Vitebsk .“As far as we know, the linocuts are the earliest prints among the surviving body of Yudovin’s works. Executed on different types of paper - flimsy sheets alternating with a grayish cardboard - they bear witness to the austerity of the early post-Revolution years.” See R. Apter-Gabriel, The Jewish Art of Solomon Yudovin (1991) p. viii. “The last published echo of the Jewish Ethnographic Society expeditions.” Tradition and Revolution p.33