Jun 13, 2002 - Sale 1939

Sale 1939 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(JEWISH ART.) Aleichem, Sholom. The Bewitched Tailor. 26 lithographed plates by Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, including title and colophon, many heightened in silver, each Signed in pencil by Kaplan. Folio, 23½x17¼ inches, 590x439 mm (full sheets), laid into cloth portfolio with pictorial color title label, minor wear along edges. One of 600 copies. Leningrad, 1957, [i.e.1959]

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Anatoli Kaplan, born in Russia in 1902, was inspired by both the Jewish tradition and Russian folklore. A draughtsman and lithographer, his work captures the atmosphere of the shtetl complementing Aleichem's verse.<