Auction 24 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

First Book about Marc Chagall's Art – Moscow, 1918

Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,000
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Iskusstvo Marka Shagala, Abram [Markovich] Efros; Iakov Tugendkhol'd [The Art of Marc Chagall]. Moscow-Berlin: Gelikon, 1918. 1st edition. Russian.
The first book about the art of Marc Chagall, by Jacob Tugendkhold and Avraham Markovich Efrat. Includes numerous reproductions. Copy no. 423 out of an edition of 850 copies. Emblem of the publishing house designed by El Lissitzky. 51, [5] pp, [12] plates, 30 cm. Good condition. Tears at borders of cover, some professionally restored. Rare.
Avant-Garde, Modernism and Yiddish Literature
Avant-Garde, Modernism and Yiddish Literature