Photographs
Photographs
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
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