rare suite of ten duo-tone prints

A rare suite of ten duo-tone prints in pink wash by Goldberg in his characteristically dark and sparse style.

A Jew of Polish extraction and a holocaust survivo, Abraham Goldberg (1906-1980) has been called the Jewish Rembrandt. His themes included Jewish life, family and characters of the East-European Jewry, and the Jewish staitel. He studied painting in the United States and in Paris, but mostly worked in Israel.

Rare! No copies in OCLC of either this or the second edition of 1934, which was published in an edition of 500.

First edition, no.41 of an edition of 100; portfolio (57 x 39 cm.); 10 plates, each plate tipped onto card stock & numbered in lower left hand corner and signed by the artist in the lower right hand corner; some light tanning to outer margins of a few plates, lower left corner of one plate dog eared, with tissue guards heavily wrinkled, but plates overall clean and bright with minimal wearoriginal creme coloured boards with paste down on front board and ribbon ties; boards soiled and rubbed, pencil inscription to upper left hand corner of front board, fraying to corners and board edges. A good copy.