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KAPLAN, Anatoli Lvovich (1902-1980). Odinadtsat p

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[Leningrad: ] 1977. Folio (446 x 346 mm). Dry-points throughout: title with decorative vignette (verso blank), list of contents (verso blank), 11 plates, all by Kaplan, each signed in pencil beneath the image and numbered in pencil "11/15". Unbound as issued within the original cloth portfolio, cloth ties. Condition: small blue ink spots to verso of final plate; portfolio lightly soiled. Provenance: purchased directly from the artist in 1978. NUMBER 11 OF 15 SETS with each leaf signed by the artist. From the 1950s on, Kaplan devoted his art to Jewish themes. Consequently, he was constantly harassed and threatened by the Soviet cultural police. He also illustrated Shalom Aleichem's Tevye the Milkman (3 series, 1957-1966), The Enchanted Tailor (1954-57) and Song of Songs (1962), and prepared a magnificent series of colored lithographs for the traditional Passover song Chad Gadya [A Little Goat]. Despite the title page, the music by Dmitri Shoshtakovich is not included with this suite. "[His illustrations] are outside tradition; they are intensely literary; and they reflect nothing more recent than the world of Gogol. They are also so brilliantly good that in comparison Chagall seems like a clumsy amateur" (Brookner, p. 361).

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