Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HIS STORIES INSPIRED "FIDDLER ON THE ROOF" ALEICHEM, SHOLEM. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, to Pauline and Leonid Levin, in Russian: "For the many pleasurable hours spent together and for your friendship," half-length portrait by Ioffe, showing him looking into the camera with cigar in one hand and dipping pen in the other. Inscribed in the image, lower edge. 9 1/4x11 3/4 inches; marked scattered fading to signature and text, mounted to larger board, short closed tear at lower left, minor scattered abrasions. [Kiev?], 9 December 1904