Lot 42*
Issachar Ber Ryback(Russian, 1897-1935)'Hühnermarket'
29 February 2012, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£14,000 - £18,000
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Issachar Ber Ryback (Russian, 1897-1935)
'Hühnermarket'
signed 'I. Ryback' (lower left); further titled 'Hühnermarket' (verso)
oil on canvas
22 x 27cm (8 11/16 x 10 5/8in).
painted 1930s
signed 'I. Ryback' (lower left); further titled 'Hühnermarket' (verso)
oil on canvas
22 x 27cm (8 11/16 x 10 5/8in).
painted 1930s
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
Sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 6 December 2007, lot 10
A private collection, Israel
Born in the Ukraine in 1897, Ryback lived in Moscow in 1919 and 1920 and worked closely with the artists of the Russian avant-garde, in particular with El Lissitsky, Pevsner and Gabo. In 1921, he moved to Berlin where he associated with Der Strum and in 1925 he was invited back to Soviet Russia to design sets and costumes for the Moscow theatre.
He finally settled in Paris in 1926 and there his artistic themes turned nostalgically to the Russian Jewish Shtetl life. In 1935, on the eve of the first large retrospective at Galerie Wildenstein, he suddenly died. In a review published in La Presse, Waldemar George commented:
'Ryback is not a realist given to the interpretation of dramatic subjects. He is a visionary who transformed rags and tatters into sumptuous brocades. By virtue of his magical colors, human waifs are changed into kings of legend, the desolated sites of Eastern Europe glow with intense brilliance, and his muddy farmyard evoke a rich tapestry, woven with silken threads.'
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Waldemar George quoted in I. Ryback 1897-1935, Bat Yam, Bet Ryback, exhibition catalogue, 1963