Alexander Rodchenko - Photographs London Thursday, November 5, 2015 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Phillips de Pury & Company, London, 8 November 2012, lot 61

  • Literature

    A. Lavrentiev, Alexander Rodchenko: Photography 1924-1954, Könemann, 1995, cover and various pages
    M. Tupitsyn, Aleksandr Rodchenko: The New Moscow, Schirmer/Mosel, 2001, pl. 80
    Alexander Rodchenko: Photography is an Art, Interros, 2006, various pages
    Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography, Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow House of Photography Museum/ Hayward Gallery, London, 2008, various pages

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1924; The Poet Vladimir Mayakovski, 1924; Fire Escape, 1925; Balconies, 1925; House of Mosselpron,1925; Columns of the Museum of Revolution, 1926; Samozveri (Auto-Animals), 1926; Boats on the Moscow River, 1926; Pine Trees, Pushkino,1927; Briansk Railway Station, 1927; Cigarette Girl, Pushkinskaya Square, 1927; Courier Girl, 1928; Glass and Light, 1928; Courtyard, 1928; Gathering for a Demonstration, 1928; Street, 1929; Guard, Shukov Tower, 1929; Gears, 1929 ; Stairs, 1929; Pioneer with a Trumpet, 1930; Turn of the Street Car Line, 1932; Orchestra, White Sea Canal, 1933; Ships in the Lock, 1933; Girl with Leica, 1934; Diver, 1934; Athletes, 1934; Horse Race, 1935; ‘Dynamo’ Sports Club, 1935; Gymnastics, 1936; Male Pyramid,1936

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Museum Series Portfolio Number 1: Classic Images

Moscow and New York: Rodchenko/Stepanova Archives and Howard Schickler Fine Art, 1994. Thirty gelatin silver prints, printed later by Alexander Lavrentiev and Yuri Plaksin.
Varying sizes from 15 x 22 cm (5 7/8 x 8 5/8 in) to 18.9 x 24.3 cm (7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in) or the reverse.
Each numbered Portfolio no. ‘20’ and ‘1–30’ sequentially in an unidentified hand in ink on a label affixed to the reverse of the mount. Colophon. Limited edition catalogue, number 20/100. Contained in a leather clamshell case. Number 20 from an edition of 35.

Estimate
£22,000 - 28,000 

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