Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 6,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(ALEXANDER RODCHENKO) (1891-1956)
Portfolio entitled Fotografien und Fotomontagen. With 24 (of 24) photographs of Rodchenko's compelling 1920s images. Silver prints, each measuring approximately 15 1/4x11 1/4 inches (38.7x28.6 cm.), and the reverse, on mounts measuring 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.); also with a poster, overall size 23 3/4x32 inches (60.3x81.3 cm.). Folio-sized center-hinged case with the printed title; with Varvara Stepanova Rodchenko's signature and the edition notation 14, in pencil, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. one of 20 numbered copies. Dresden, Germany: VEB Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 1979

Additional Details

This portfolio has been in a Private Collection since the 1990s; by descent.