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Roman Vishniac

Pavlovsk 1897 – 1990 New York

Hedar [David Eckstein, seven years old, and classmates in cheder, Jewish elementary school, Brod]. Circa 1938

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 34,6 × 27,8 cm (13 ⅝ × 11 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Roman Vishniac. Hedar [David Eckstein, seven years old, and classmates in cheder, Jewish elementary school, Brod]. Circa 1938.

Estimate:

EUR 20,000

 

- 25,000

USD 23,300

 

- 29,100

Sold for:

20,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

The Art of Photography, Wednesday, 01.12.2021

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Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 34,6 × 27,8 cm (13 ⅝ × 11 in.). On the reverse agency's copyright stamp: „Credit: from BLACK STAR, GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK", therein name of the photographer by an unknown hand in pencil, „LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION" stamp, date stamp: „MAR 19 1943" and three numerical stamps. Inscribed by various hands, among others the exhibition's title: „Children of want and fear", as well as numbered in pencil. With light handling marks.

The LIFE Picture Collection / Paul Scharf / Private Collection

Children of want and fear. New York, Teachers College Library, Columbia University, 1943

'The Younger Generation of Czechoslovakias's Jewish Population'. Photographs by Vishniac, in: Forward, Sunday Art Section, September 25, 1938 (there detail) / Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews. A pictorial record. New York 1947, title / Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews. A pictorial record. New York 1947, title / Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews. A Pictorial Record. New York 1965, title and p. 17 (there landscape format and titled: Boys and Books [Carpathian Ruthenia]) / Isaac Bashevis Singer: Eine Kindheit in Warschau. Mit Fotos von Roman Vishniac. Ravensburg 1981, title and frontispiece (each in a bigger cutout) / Roman Vishniac: A Vanished World. Roman Vishniac. London 1983, pl. 6 (there titled and dated: Cheder boys. Vrchni Apša, 1937) / Exh. cat.: Roman Vishniac - Rediscovered. New York, International Center of Photography; Amsterdam, Joods Historisch Museum; Paris, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme; Warszawa, Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2013/16, p. 20, ill. 5 (there bigger cutout and as exhibition announcement 'Pictures of Jewish Life in Prewar Poland' in the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), New York, 1944), p. 136, ill. 4 (there book title: Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews. A Pictorial Record. New York 1947) and p. 156, pl. 56 (there bigger cutout)

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