Lot 57
  • 57

Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina-Klutsis (1902-1987)

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina-Klutsis
  • Design for poster, Female Shock-Workers, 1931
Vintage silver print, with white gouache and pencil additions. Mounted on card, and annotated and signed on the mount.

Literature

Tupitsyn, M. 2004 pl. 99, p.141.

Condition

The image imperfectly affixed to the mount and some stress at the points of adhesion. But the surface in remarkably good condtion for an object of this type.
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Catalogue Note

The text reads: Female shock-workers strengthen the shock brigades, master technology and increase the ranks of proletarian specialists.