Broderzon, Moishe. Sichas Chulin

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,400

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(LISSITZKY, EL)

printer

Chaver Verlag

Place

Moscow

Publication

1917

Description

ONE OF 90 COPIES. Lithograph on paper. Title page, dedication and 15 text pages all surrounded by Lissitzky’s modernist design. Yiddish text written in “Assyrian script” (Lissitzky’s term for Hebrew square letters) in a traditional calligraphic style

references

Shmeruk 2538; Busch-Reisinger Museum Catalogue, El Lissitzky (1987) no. 1917/1; IMC, Tradition and Revolution pp.104-5 and 176-77. And see, A. Rudenstine, The George Costakis Collection - Russian Avant-Garde Art (1981) p. 243

summary

Folk story of Jewish Messianic hope and miracles in Old Prague. Parallels the exhilaration felt among Russia’s avant-garde Jews concerning the apocalyptic course of the Russian Revolution. This, Lissitzky’s first consciously Jewish work, created a new aesthetic experience, integrating religious and cultural origins and transforming them into a regenerated secular perspective

Browned. Later boards. 225x300 mm

Enquire about this lot