Lot Essay
This is the retouched vintage print used for reproduction as the back cover of Conversation with a Tax Inspector about Poetry, 1924.
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Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
Details
Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956)
Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
gelatin silver print
extensive annotations and 2 'Pesell' stamps (on the verso)
11½ x 8in. (29.1 x 20.3cm.)
Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
gelatin silver print
extensive annotations and 2 'Pesell' stamps (on the verso)
11½ x 8in. (29.1 x 20.3cm.)
Provenance
With Deborah Bell Photographs, New York
Literature
Rodtschenko Fotograf 1891-1956, Arkana Verlag, Göttingen, 1989, pl. 4, p. 16, variant; Lavrentiev, Alexander Rodchenko Photography 1924- 1954, Knickerbocker Press, 1995, pl. 73, p. 72, variant; Aleksandr Rodchenko, The Museum of Modern Art, 1998, pl. 143, p. 213, variant