Lot 198
"1944" – Drawings by Péter Áldor – Budapest, 1945 – Early Documentation of the Atrocities of the Holocaust
1944, Áldor Péter rajzai, Fodor József előszavával [1944, drawings by Péter Áldor, with a foreword by József Fodor]. Budapest: Független Magyarország, [1945]. Hungarian.
Booklet with eighteen drawings (plates; captioned in Hungarian) documenting the atrocities of the Holocaust, by Jewish-Hungarian Holocaust survivor Péter Áldor (1904-1976). The booklet begins with a printed dedication by the artist to two of his friends – writer and historian Antal Szerb and writer and journalist Vághidi Ferenc – and with a forward by poet and translator József Fodor (1898-1973).
Original cover, showing a drawing featured in the booklet ("Epilogue, Lott") with the title "1944" in red.
[22] ff. (18 plates), approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Some minor stains. Cover slightly loose. Stains, creases and minor wear to cover. Small open tears to spine.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
