Auction 9 · Lot 318

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

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

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

author

RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER

printer

Schwellen Verlag

Place

Berlin

Publication

1923

Description

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)

references

Jüdische Lebenswelten Katalog, Berlin (1991) no.7/25 (illustrated)

summary

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 his father was killed. This profound series of lithographs portrays the ravaged Shtetl and expresses the artist’s grief for a world abandoned and 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

Extreme outer margins lightly worn in few places. Original pictorial blue suede, edges lightly rubbed, shaken (as most all copies). Oblong folio (sheet size 330x490 mm)

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