Lot 1293: Rodchenko, Alexander Portrait Vladimir Mayakovsky

Rodchenko, Alexander Portrait Vladimir Mayakovsky Laid down on cardboard. With supplement: book "Sovjetskoi Reklamij Plakat - Soviet Advertising Poster - Das sowjetische Reklameplakat" by Volya Lyakhov, therein on the frontispice signed, dated and dedicated: „To Mr. Davis to memorize his visit to the workshop of Alexander Rodchenko in Kirov street, 21 app. 18 on the eighth floor. Varvara Rodchenko, Nikolaj Lawrentiew, Alexander Lawrentiew and Grina Presnetsova, 24.11.74, 16.20 p.M. MOSCOW" in blue ink by Varvara Rodchenko, Nikolai Lavrentiev, Alexander Lavrentiev and Grina Presnetsova

9 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (9 1/2 x 7 in.)

Gelatin silver print, 1960s

1924.0

Alexander Lavrentiev, Alexander Rodchenko, Photography 1924-1954, Cologne 1995, p. 71 Magdalena Dabrowski, Leah Dickerman, Peter Galassi, Aleksandr Rodchenko, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1998, p. 207, ill. 133

1974 from the Rodchenko family to Douglas Davis