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Auction archive: Lot number 3083

KLUTSIS, GUSTAV GUSTAVOVICH, AND SERGEI YAKOVLEVICH SENKEN, illustrators.

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US$0
Price realised:
US$5,000
Auction archive: Lot number 3083

KLUTSIS, GUSTAV GUSTAVOVICH, AND SERGEI YAKOVLEVICH SENKEN, illustrators.

Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$5,000
Beschreibung:

KON, FELIKS YAKOVLEVICH, editor. Pamyati pogibshikh vozhdei. [In Memory of Fallen Leaders.] Moscow: Moskovskii Rabochii, 1927. Folio. 88 pp. Original Constructivist laminated boards designed by G. Klutsis and S. Senkin. Minimal wear. BANNED SOVIET ALBUM. Klutsis was the most important of the Stalinist agitprop poster artists who worked primarily with photocollage. Senkin also produced propaganda posters. Kon was a prominent Polish Communist. Other contributors include Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, and Stalin himself. This title appears on p 197 in vol. II of Svodnyi spisok (Combined List), 1973, p 197, that listed all books that were banned from Soviet libraries and bookstores. Klutsis was arrested during the Great Purge and executed.

Auction archive: Lot number 3083
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

KON, FELIKS YAKOVLEVICH, editor. Pamyati pogibshikh vozhdei. [In Memory of Fallen Leaders.] Moscow: Moskovskii Rabochii, 1927. Folio. 88 pp. Original Constructivist laminated boards designed by G. Klutsis and S. Senkin. Minimal wear. BANNED SOVIET ALBUM. Klutsis was the most important of the Stalinist agitprop poster artists who worked primarily with photocollage. Senkin also produced propaganda posters. Kon was a prominent Polish Communist. Other contributors include Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, and Stalin himself. This title appears on p 197 in vol. II of Svodnyi spisok (Combined List), 1973, p 197, that listed all books that were banned from Soviet libraries and bookstores. Klutsis was arrested during the Great Purge and executed.

Auction archive: Lot number 3083
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
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