A. Kolnik - Métamorphoses d'une Mélodie [IN HEBREW] [LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY ARTIST - COPY #52].

RARE! COPY No.52 of 200 copies SIGNED BY ARTIST - ARTHUR KOLNIK, printed on Lana paper (altogether were printed 1126 numbered copies, only 226 of them signed by artist). This album is the HEBREW version of a hasidic story by the great Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz illustrated by the renowned Jewish painter and printmaker Arthur Kolnik (1890-1972) who was born in Stanislaviv (today Ivano-Frankovsk), Ukraine and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the studio of Professor Joseph Mehoffer. After an exhibition in the United States of America in 1921 settled in Chernivtsi and moved to Paris in 1931 where he worked as illustrator. Tel Aviv Art Museum organized a major exhibition of his works in 1968. 320x240mm. 25 pages. 20 woodcuts. Unbound double sheets with softcover. Each woodcut protected by a layer of transparent foil. Red lettering on front cover. Cover yellowing and slightly dirty. Front cover detached from rear cover. Cover edges tattered. Whitepages yellowing/age-stained. Pages slightly yellowing. Woodcuts in mint condition. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare copy of illustrated Jewish prose has sustained some external damage to cover, but is otherwise in very good condition.

Edizione: vingt gravures sur bois, inspirées du conte hassidique de i. l. peretz (en hébreu)