[Szyk, Arthur, Artur] Rifkind, Simon H.

FROM THE EULOGY OF SIMON H. RIFKIND AT THE FUNERAL OF ARTHUR SZYK…SEPTEMBER 14, 1951 [ARTUR]

No Place [New York?]: Sidney Hollaender [printer; aka Ever Ready Label Corp], 1951. Item #42255

1st edition. Original double-fold booklet with photo tipped in to front, 4to, 4 pages. Includes selections from the eulogy given by Simon H. Rifkind for Szyk, printed by Sidney Hollaender and given out at the funeral. Hollaender notes on the rear that he is printing this “in appreciation of a colorful friend.” See Arthur Szyk Society newsletter, v. 3, n. 1, 2001. In Szyk bibliographies, Hollaender is credited as the printer of Szyk’s “Lithograph of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address;” Hollaender’s daughter has indicated that Hollaender and his Ever Ready Label Corp in fact did a great deal of printing for Szyk. Szyk (1894–1951) was a leading 20th Century graphic designer, book illustrator, stage designer, and caricaturist Szyk. Born in Lodz, Poland, he spent his entire life producing images celebrating and encouraging resistance by Poland and the Jewish people. His work was well-known in Poland, France, and Great Britain prior to World War II. In 1937, he left Poland for London, where he worked for four years to produce the paintings that would comprise his famous Hagadah. His stinging caricatures of the Axis leaders Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito brought him great fame after he immigrated to the USA in 1940. His art was distinguished by its embrace of the Medieval and Renaissance and rejecting modernism. None listed on OCLC. We were able to locate only one copy, at the McGill Archives, using a google search. Certainly very few were printed to begin with; it appears that a very small number have survived. Light toning, Very Good Condition. (ART-28-9B-’+).

Price: $500.00