Apr 27, 2023 - Sale 2634

Sale 2634 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROMAN VISHNIAC (1887-1990)
Musarnic [sic] (follower of the Musar movement) studying in a yeshiva, Vilna. Silver print, the image measuring 9 3/4x7 3/4 inches (24.8x19.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Vishniac's signature, partial title, and negative date in ink on recto and verso. 1937; printed 1970s

Provenance: NOVA Gallery, Vancouver (NOVA was the first commercial gallery and bookstore in the city devoted to photography)

From 1935 to 1938, Roman Vishniac traveled throughout Central and Eastern Europe photographing impoverished Jewish communities for the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.