Kaplan, Anatoly Lvovich (1902 Rahachou - 1980 Leningrad)

Lot 1517 limit € 150

Drypoint etching, "The Declaration", signed and inscribed below in lead, monogrammed and dated (19)76 in the print, slight signs of age, verso in Cyrillic dedication by the artist, sheet approx. 44.5 x 35 cm, plate approx. 21 x 16 cm, provenance: Georg Brühl Collection, Chemnitz, collection stamp, Anatoli Kaplan was a Russian-Jewish painter, sculptor and graphic artist, 1922-27 studied at the Art Academy in Petrograd, later Leningrad became his home, id 1930s work in a Group of artists on the "Autonomous Jewish Republic" in the extreme east of Russia, 1946 the portfolio "Leningrad in the days of the blockade" appeared, from 1953 among other things illustrations on Jewish literature, 1995 retrospective in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg