Three Booklets – Solomon Yudovin's Woodcuts – Vitebsk and Leningrad, 1926/1928

Three Booklets – Solomon Yudovin's Woodcuts – Vitebsk and Leningrad, 1926/1928
Three booklets about Solomon Yudovin's woodcuts: the booklet "Vitebsk in S. Yudovin's Woodcuts" and two copies of the booklet "Woodcuts" (one numbered).
1. Віцебск у гравюрах С. Юдовіна [Vitebsk in S. Yudovin's Woodcuts], by Ivan Furman (Johann Fuhrmann). Vitebsk, 1926. Ukrainian and German.
A booklet dedicated to Yudovin's woodcuts depicting the city of Vitebsk and its people; accompanied by reproductions of woodcuts.
45, [2] pp, 24 cm. Good condition. A few stains and small tears. Detached cover, with closed and open tears to edges and spine (professionally restored, with paper repairs).
2-3. С. Юдовин. Гравюры на дереве. Текст И. Иоффе и Э. Голлербаха [S. Yudovin, Woodcuts. Text: I. Ioffe and E. Gollerbakh]. Leningrad (St. Petersburg), 1928. Russian.
Two copies of a booklet dedicated to Yudovin's woodcuts. The booklet was printed in 1200 copies, 50 of which were numbered. One of the present copies is numbered 12/50.
47, [1] pp, 24 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Tears. Minor blemishes to covers.
The artist Solomon (Shlomo) Yudovin (1892-1954), born in Biešankovičy in the Vitebsk province, studied art under Yehudha Pen and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and specialized in printmaking and book illustration. His work was greatly inspired by his participation in S. An-Ski's ethnographic expedition to the Pale of Settlement in 1912-1914. Most of his work was devoted to Jewish themes, incorporating Jewish folk art motifs. In 1918-1923, he lived in Vitebsk, which was then a major center of avant-garde art. Unlike Jewish Russian artists of that period, Yudovin did not embrace modernism and remained a figurative, realistic artist throughout his life.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.