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.
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Condition Report
Provenance
Collection of George Abrams, artist and noted type designer
By descent through family to the present owner
Literature
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