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

Estimate

$4,000–$5,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER

printer

Schwellen Verlag

Place

Berlin

Publication

1923

Description

NUMBER 32 OF 50 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY RYBACK. 30 tinted and black-and-white lithographs (including title) numbered III-XXXI, all complete

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

Trace foxed on first few leaves. Original pictorial blue suede, gently rubbed at extremities. Oblong folio (sheet size 330x490 mm)

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