Auction 17 · Lot 373

Troyer [“Mourning”- collection of poems]. By David Hofstein

Estimate: $2,500–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(CHAGALL, MARC)

printer

Kultur Lige

Place

Kiev

Publication

1922

Description

Front cover, title and six illustrated pages by Chagall. Inscribed and dated by author to Moldiner on title

references

Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution (1987) no. 150 i-vi (illustrated); Museum of Modern Art Catalogue, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934 (2002), no. 373, pp.142-3 (illustrated)

summary

“The most impressive Yiddish book illustrations by Chagall during 1917-22 are the drawings he made for Troyer (‘Mourning’), a collection of poems by David Hofstein, which movingly portrays the feelings of the poet after the pogroms against the Jews in the Ukraine during the Civil War.” C. Abramsky, Yiddish Book Illustrations in Russia: 1916-1923, in: Tradition and Revolution p.62. See also, S. Wolitz, Chagall’s Last Soviet Performance: The Graphics for Troyer, in: Journal of Jewish Art, Vol. 21/2 (1995/6) pp. 95-115

pp. 32. Light stains in places, few margins frayed. Folio

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