Lot 338
Woodcuts by Shlomo Yudovin - St. Petersburg, 1928
С. Юдовин. Гравюры на дереве. Текст И. Иоффе и Э. Голлербаха [S. Yudovin, Woodcuts. Text: I. Ioffe and E. Gollerbakh]. Leningrad (St. Petersburg), 1928. First edition. Russian.
Booklet dedicated to the woodcuts of Jewish artist Shlomo (Solomon) Yudovin (1892-1954).
The works appearing in this booklet present in a naturalistic manner motifs of folk Jewish art and different scenes from the Jewish shtetl, witnessed by Yudovin on a Jewish ethnographic mission to the Pale of Settlement in 1912-1914, headed by S. Ansky.
47, [1] pp, 25 cm. Good condition. Stains and small tears to cover.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.