Alexander Rodchenko, 1891-1956

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Description

Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
'Osip Brik', 1927
181 by 137mm

Vintage Copy Print, the photographer's intials in the negative of the original, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse, and with wetstamp in Russian 'From the Collection of...' (the rest illegible) also on the reverse,

Literature

For another print of this image, see M. Dabrowski et alii 1998, pl. 149.

Catalogue Note

Osip Makismovich Brik (1888-1945) was an avant-garde Russian writer, one of the most important members of the Russian formalists school, and a co-founder of the magazine LEF (Leftist Front for the Arts). This image is an unpublished illustration for the cover of the magazine. The lettering in Brik's right eye glass reads 'LEF'.