Foyglen [“Birds”]. Children’s poetry by LEIB KVITKO

Estimate: $2,500–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,800

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author

(RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER)

printer

Farlag Shveln

Place

Berlin

Publication

1922

Description

With color pictorial wrappers, title page and 14 illustrations by RYBACK

references

Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution, no.137 i-xiv (illustrated)

summary

The influence of early nineteenth-century Russian woodcuts interspersed with strong Cubist sculptural elements are most clearly apparent in Ryback’s graphic black-and-white illustrations of birds for this book of children’s poetry. The vase of flowers represented in vibrant colors on the lower wrapper is a motif borrowed from Jewish tombstone carvings

pp.16. Lightly browned, extreme lower corner of a few leaves marginally chipped. Oblong 4to

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