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'Shor lived in Kiev and Moscow. A young
woman at the time of the Russian Revolution, she tried her hand at
various art styles of the day, cubism and constructivism among them, but
her illustrations for tales and stories, especially for Cock And Bull Stories by I. Kipnis (1924),
examples below, are most distinctive. Shor conveys the emotional
actions of the stories with a minimum of fuss. The cat and Renard the
fox have a complicated relationship here, sometimes friends, sometimes
not. Children lead complicated lives, too. You know even before you read
the title that the little girl climbing the ladder is The Imp, while the child washing the feet of the elderly woman has a hard life indeed.All
the works shown here, save the last one, were made during the 1920s and
all are from the collection of the Museum of Jewish Art & History
in Paris. How they got there I do not know.'
via thebluelantern.blogspot.com
