Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections

Anatoli Kaplan – Tevye the Dairyman, Part II – Lithographs Signed by the Artist

Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium

Тевье–молочник ["Tevye the Dairyman"], part II. Portfolio of 25 lithograph illustrations produced by Anatoli Kaplan, after Sholem Aleichem's book. Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Издательство Художник РСФСР, 1961. Russian.
Twenty–five lithographs depicting scenes from the tales of Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman. The lithographs are signed by the artist, captioned in pencil (Russian), and numbered; lithograph title page, table of contents and colophon, signed by the artist.
Copy no. 16 of a limited edition of 125 copies (hand–numbered in the colophon); placed in fine, original cloth portfolio. Emblem of the RSFSR Artists' Union on blank leaf at the beginning of the portfolio, with the copy number in handwriting.


[28] lithographs (25 illustrations, title page, table of contents and colophon). 62X47 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor creases (marginal). Minor open tear to corner of colophon. Minor stains to portfolio.


Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, ALE.21.

Art and Artists' Books
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