Oyf di Yiddisher Feld fun Ukraina [“On the Jewish Fields of the Ukraine.”]

RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER

Paris

1926

ONE OF ONLY 50 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. BOLDLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY RYBACK ON HALF-TITLE. The text in Yiddish only. Twenty-one color plates. A crisp copy

Boldly inscribed in English by Ryback: “To Samuel Willig - To remember an afternoon spent in our studio in Paris. September 11, 1929. I. Ryback.” Ryback had once described the “national element” of the Jewish artist as preferring deep, dark tones; “Whenever color is bright the Jewish artist turns it down.” Following his sojourn among the Jewish Kolkozes, Ryback found the means to reverse his theories (viz. introduction): “To me, who grew up in the Pale amid the wan, worn out faces; the healthy, sunburnt, wind beaten men and women were a perfect joy, and indeed revealed to me new colors.” Ryback: See also Lots ***