Kaplan, Anatoly Lvovich (1902 Rahachou - 1980 Leningrad)

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Artist book, Mendele Mojcher Sforim / Fischke the lame. Beggar novel, with 26 lithographs by Anatoli Kaplan, original etching included, monogrammed and dated (19)76 in print as well as signed and titled in lead, the publication with XIV numbered artist's proof, Verlag Philipp Reclam Junior Leipzig 1978, in the original slipcase, minor signs of age , Format approx. 30 x 21 cm, Russian-Jewish painter, sculptor and graphic artist, 1922-27 studied at the Art Academy in Petrograd, in the 1930s worked in a group of artists on the Autonomous Jewish Republic in the far east of Russia, 1946 portfolio Leningrad in the days of the blockade, from 1953, among other things, illustrations on Jewish literature, 1995 retrospective in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg