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Judaica - Holocaust - Taslitzky, Boris. 111 Dessins faits à Buchenwald 1944-1945. Présentés par Julien Cain. With 111 (6 portraits, 5 color) plates. Paris, Bibliothèque Francaise, 1945/46. title, printer's mark, 11 pp. (preface), 4 pp. (contents and colophon). 25 x 22 cm. Loose in original illustrated cardboard box (spine with tears, dusty, rear cover with waterstain, portfolio flaps partly missing). One of 500 (GA 3200) numbered copies on "véline pur fil du Marais". - Captions in French, English and Russian. Title page and preface in French. - Boris Taslitzky (1911-2005) began painting at the age of fifteen and attended the Académie Montparnasse and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1925 and 1933. In 1933 he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, where he became secretary general of the painters' and sculptors' section. In 1935 he became a member of the Communist Party. In 1936, Taslitzky took part in the exhibition that brought together Picasso, Léger, Matisse, Braque, Jean Lurcat, Laurens and Pinion in the foyer of the Alhambra Theater. He was captured in June 1940, escaped in August and joined the Resistance. He was arrested again in November 1941, sentenced to two years in prison and deported to Buchenwald on July 31, 1944, where he managed to produce around two hundred drawings depicting life in the camps. "When I go to hell, I will make sketches. Besides, I have experience, I've been there and I've drawn!" he said later. - Only slightly browned or minimally altered in places. VAT: *
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Judaica - Holocaust - Taslitzky, Boris. 111 Dessins faits à Buchenwald 1944-1945. Présentés par Julien Cain. With 111 (6 portraits, 5 color) plates. Paris, Bibliothèque Francaise, 1945/46. title, printer's mark, 11 pp. (preface), 4 pp. (contents and colophon). 25 x 22 cm. Loose in original illustrated cardboard box (spine with tears, dusty, rear cover with waterstain, portfolio flaps partly missing). One of 500 (GA 3200) numbered copies on "véline pur fil du Marais". - Captions in French, English and Russian. Title page and preface in French. - Boris Taslitzky (1911-2005) began painting at the age of fifteen and attended the Académie Montparnasse and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1925 and 1933. In 1933 he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, where he became secretary general of the painters' and sculptors' section. In 1935 he became a member of the Communist Party. In 1936, Taslitzky took part in the exhibition that brought together Picasso, Léger, Matisse, Braque, Jean Lurcat, Laurens and Pinion in the foyer of the Alhambra Theater. He was captured in June 1940, escaped in August and joined the Resistance. He was arrested again in November 1941, sentenced to two years in prison and deported to Buchenwald on July 31, 1944, where he managed to produce around two hundred drawings depicting life in the camps. "When I go to hell, I will make sketches. Besides, I have experience, I've been there and I've drawn!" he said later. - Only slightly browned or minimally altered in places. VAT: *
