Yoshe Kalb Woodcut SIGNED Ltd Edition Natol Sussanne Circa 1932-3 Judaica Art

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Yoshe Kalb Woodcut SIGNED Ltd Edition Natol Sussanne Circa 1932-3 Judaica Art:
$150.00

Yoshe KalbOriginal Woodcut
byNatol SussanneSIGNED
30/50

Pencil signed by artist at lower right.
Number 30 of edition of 50.
Proffesionally matted and framed in black wood frame.
Frame dimensions: 10.25 x 13 inches
Mat window dimensions: 5.5 x 7.75 inches

A portrait of the title character in Israel Joshua Singer\'s eponymous Yiddish novel of pre-enlightenment Ḥasidic life in Galicia, which was first published in Yiddish in 1932and immediately adapted for the Yiddish stage by Maurice Schwartz. After the great success of this work in Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theatre, Singer moved to New York.\"Yoshe Kalb\" was performed a number of times by Maurice Schwartz\'s Yiddish Art Theatre, both domestically and abroad. It first opened on 9 September 1932 at the Folks Theatre at 189 2nd Avenue. The title role was played by Lazar Freed and it is very likely that Sussanne saw the production and modeled his woodcut after Freed’s portrayal of Yoshe Kalb.

Sussanne apparently worked as an artist in California before coming east. Some of his work was in the Albert M. Bender collection of promising California artists.

IN NEW YORK NATOL SUSSANNE ROSS BRAUGHT
By JANE RICHTERBeset with a romanticised realism, a large section of American painting has, in recent years, seemed singularly devoid of imagination. This long absent quality has, however, returned in strength in the painting of Natol Sussanne and Ross Braught, who recently held one-man shows at the Findlay and Ferargil Galleries in New York. Mr. Braught is a former Philadelphian and Mr. Sussanne is now making this city his home. Both are symbolic painters, recreating not only the physical world in which they live but attempting by means of significant imagery to give substance to the inner world of mind and heart.Natol Sussanne is a painter of tumultuous life, expressing his conceptions with energy of form and color. The seed and the plant, the child and the man, the earth from which all rise—these are the subjects of his art, made apparent in swirls of color. Reds, blues, yellows, greens of unbelievable brilliance testify to Sussanne’s belief that life is essentially an exciting if mysterious experience.The symbolism with which he presents this belief is equally as rich as the color. “Seed” is an attempt to encompass the mystery of creation. A great, onion-shaped seed fills the canvas, its roundness and strength but partially concealing the image of man, for a human face is dimly perceptible in the center of the seed form. “Peasant” shows a robust country girl, seated with her back to a window, through which one sees a field rich with growth. Everything in the picture creates an impression of physical luxuriance, an impression which is heightened by the symbolic painting out of the girl’s face. In most of these paintings the color is used with a very special meaning. The clear blood-red, present in so many, seems to typify for Sussanne, fecundity. The stalwart girl in “Peasant” is limned with it; in the little landscape, “Western Pennsylvania,” the very fields exude the blood color of fertility.The thirty-one canvases included in this exhibit showed Sussanne as a painter of very decided if not completely determined power. As yet he is still somewhat of an eclectic, adapting the strength of many different artists to his own needs. For “To the Earth” and “Cross Roads” he has employed the short, vigorous strokes of Van Gogh; “Bayou Breed” shows the influence of one of Picasso’s early phases with a flakey, almost pastel-like use of pigment; “Under Water” recalls the reveries of Burne-Jones in theme and treatment. Sussanne however, is a highly original artist, belonging to no “school”, but rather feeling life intensely and interpreting these intense sensations imaginatively.
Philadelphia Art News Vol. 1 No. 9, 1938SUSSANNE DIES AT TWENTY-SIX
A career of great promise was brought to an untimely end last month with the death of Natol Sussanne, twenty-six year old Philadelphia painter. Sussanne’s New York debut at the Ferargil Galleries was reviewed in the February 28 issue of the Philadelphia Art News. Leonid Gechtoff, who was a close friend of Sussanne, hopes to arrange a memorial exhibition of his work in this city.
PHILADELPHIA ART NEWS
ALL THE NEWS OF PHILADELPHIA ART IMPARTIALLY REPORTEDMAY 16, 1938
Vol. 1 - - - No. 13

CONDITION: No visible flaws in print or framing.

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