Auction 70 · Lot 47
Jewish Innkeeper.
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(POLAND).
Place
Warsaw, (c. 1928)
Description
Lithograph by Gustaw Pillati (1874-1931). Framed.
summary
A highly scarce image of a Jewish-run tavern. Featuring Polish peasants in traditional holiday dress, dancing to a Jewish fiddler’s tunes, while another Jew serves drinks. From the renditions of Polish folk-life: “Typy Polskie.”
See G. Dynner, Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor and Life in the Kingdom of Poland (2013) pp. 28-30.
12.25 x 31 inches.
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