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An Elder of the Village, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938
Details
ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897–1990)
An Elder of the Village, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938
gelatin silver print
signed and dated in ink on accompanying paper label
image/sheet: 13 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (33.6 x 27.3 cm.)
An Elder of the Village, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938
gelatin silver print
signed and dated in ink on accompanying paper label
image/sheet: 13 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (33.6 x 27.3 cm.)
Provenance
The estate of the artist;
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992.
Literature
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews, A Pictorial Record, Schocken Books, New York, 1947, pl. 30, n.p.
Elie Wiesel, A Vanished World: Roman Vishniac, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983, pl. 3, n.p.
Elie Wiesel, A Vanished World: Roman Vishniac, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983, pl. 3, n.p.
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