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Aleksandr Rodchenko

Power Lines

Lot Closed

April 10, 03:41 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Aleksandr Rodchenko

1891 - 1956

Power Lines


ferrotyped gelatin silver print, credit 'А.м.Родч.' [A.M. Rodch.] and annotation 'Глава 15' [chapter 15] in pencil, and with a 'univ. prof. ing. lubomir linhart' address stamp on the reverse, framed

image: 4¼ by 6⅛ in. (10.2 by 15.6 cm.)

frame: 11 by 14 in. (27.9 by 35.6 cm.)

Executed circa 1927, printed later.


Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com

Collection of George Abrams, artist and noted type designer

By descent through family to the present owner

Novii Lef, “number 5”, 1927, cover

Alexander Lavrentjev, Rodchenko Photography (Munich, 1982), pl. 98 (as pictured on magazine cover) 

Photographie Aus Der Sowjetunion, Die Revolution: Die Anfaenge des BildJournalismus in der Sowjetunion (Kunsthaus Zürich, 1989), cover