Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(JUDAICA--THEATER.) Original illustration for a Yiddish theater performance of "In the Foyer." Pen and ink on board, 15½ x 17¾ inches, signed "Moynahan"; 1½-inch repaired closed tear, reinforced with mount remnants on verso, inked stamps and signature of collector Murray A. Harris on verso. New York?, circa early 1920s

Additional Details

This performance includes Max Bulman (1882-1926), who performed at the Liberty Theatre in Brownsville, Brooklyn for much of the 1920s until his untimely death. The cast also included the husband and wife team of Isidore and Anna Hollander, who married in New York in 1913, Betty Frank, Louis Freiman, Janet Ringler, Morris Silberkasten, and others. At top left is Morris Silverstein as "Chlock, the fighting, singing, dancing, drinking shoemaker."