![AL'TMAN, Natan. Evreiskaia Grafika. [Jewish Graphics.] Text by Max Osborn. Berlin: Petropolis, 1923. 2° (482 x 360mm). 10 full-page lithographed plates within copper-coloured borders, original tissue-guards. (Light soiling in some margins.) Publisher's original illustrated boards (spine worn and with losses, sides soiled, one corner bumped, extremities rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_06237_0405_000(altman_natan_evreiskaia_grafika_jewish_graphics_text_by_max_osborn_ber091210).jpg?w=1)
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AL'TMAN, Natan. Evreiskaia Grafika. [Jewish Graphics.] Text by Max Osborn. Berlin: Petropolis, 1923. 2° (482 x 360mm). 10 full-page lithographed plates within copper-coloured borders, original tissue-guards. (Light soiling in some margins.) Publisher's original illustrated boards (spine worn and with losses, sides soiled, one corner bumped, extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, Russian-language issue. One of 250 copies only, this one unnumbered. Osborn's text considers primarily Al'tman's pre-revolutionary output in the context of contemporary Jewish art. 'The clever adaptation of essential features of folk art, understood in its formal aspect, and its skilful transformation into a new art not only makes Altman's graphic works interesting from the national point of view, but also establishes him as an artist of distinction in the general European context' (Tradition and Revolution). Not in MoMA. Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928, 31.
FIRST EDITION, Russian-language issue. One of 250 copies only, this one unnumbered. Osborn's text considers primarily Al'tman's pre-revolutionary output in the context of contemporary Jewish art. 'The clever adaptation of essential features of folk art, understood in its formal aspect, and its skilful transformation into a new art not only makes Altman's graphic works interesting from the national point of view, but also establishes him as an artist of distinction in the general European context' (Tradition and Revolution). Not in MoMA. Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928, 31.