![AL'TMAN, Natan. Evreiskaia Grafika. [Jewish Graphics.] Text by Max Osborn. Berlin: Petropolis, 1923. 2° (484 x 360mm). 10 full-page lithographed plates within copper-coloured borders, original tissue-guards. Publisher's original half-vellum and illustrated boards (one corner bumped and rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_07558_0385_000(altman_natan_evreiskaia_grafika_jewish_graphics_text_by_max_osborn_ber082337).jpg?w=1)
RUSSIAN BOOKS (see also lots 246 and 262)
AL'TMAN, Natan. Evreiskaia Grafika. [Jewish Graphics.] Text by Max Osborn. Berlin: Petropolis, 1923. 2° (484 x 360mm). 10 full-page lithographed plates within copper-coloured borders, original tissue-guards. Publisher's original half-vellum and illustrated boards (one corner bumped and rubbed).
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AL'TMAN, Natan. Evreiskaia Grafika. [Jewish Graphics.] Text by Max Osborn. Berlin: Petropolis, 1923. 2° (484 x 360mm). 10 full-page lithographed plates within copper-coloured borders, original tissue-guards. Publisher's original half-vellum and illustrated boards (one corner bumped and rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE ISSUE, AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE in the original binding, and in superior condition. One of 250 copies only, this one unnumbered. '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, AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE in the original binding, and in superior condition. One of 250 copies only, this one unnumbered. '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.