Lot 218
  • 218

VKhUTEMAS

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Vkhutemas
  • Architectural Models and Space Projects, 1920s
  • Silver prints
six signed in Cyrillic by the respective architects, all variously inscribed
twelve vintage silver prints, three mounted on original card

Provenance

Selim Khan-Magomedov
Howard Schickler Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

S.Khan-Magomedov, Vkhutemas, Moscou 1920-1930, Paris: Edition du Regard, 1990, vol 2.

Condition

These prints are in overall good to very good condition. With very light handling marks, retouching marks and creases throughout the prints and some minor cracking of the gelatin in some of the prints, only visible in raking light. With some softened corners and very minor loss of paper along the edges of some of the prints. In the 'Asnova (Project for the Palace of arts)' print, there is some light silvering around the edges of the sheet. The 'VKhUTEMAS IV-5-52' print and the 'VKhUTEMAS IT-5-54 Spatial Study' print have been adhered to card.
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Catalogue Note

i. Architectural Model, V-1(C)-23(3), Graduation project: 'Park of Culture, 1929' by Liubov Zalesskaya, 1929
ii. IV-5-54, Spatial Study, VKhUTEMAS, Foundations Department, Subject Space, Archive of N.Travin, 1920s
iii. ASNOVA, Project for the Palace of Arts, Moscow, 1930 (ASNOVA was an architectural association whose members included V.Balikhin, G.Borissovsky, V.Krinsky, V.Petrov and I.Tikhorova)
iv. V-I-A (27), 1920s
v. V-I-A (27), 1920s
vi. Brigada ASNOVA, Kino-Kontsertnyi Zal (design for a Cinema-Concert Hall), 1920s
vii. Architectural Study, V-I-A (27), Project for a Lecture Hall, 1920s
viii. Architectural Study, V-I-A (27), Project for a Lecture Hall with Outdoor Seating, 1920s
ix. VKhUTEMAS III-4-4 (3), Dynamic Volumetric Composition Exercise, 1920s
x. VKhUTEMAS IV-5-27, Frontal Composition Exercise, 1920s
xi. ARU-3 Brigade (G.Krutikov, V.Lavrov, S.Lopatin, V.Popov), Competition Design for the Palace of Culture in the Proletarian Neighbourhood in Moscow, 1930
xii. VKhUTEMAS IV-5-52, Spatial Composition with Expressive Forefront Exercise, 1920s