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(RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM.) Rodchenko, Alexander. "Dobrolet" Letterhead. 6 1/2x8 inches; 160x203 mm. Printed in red and black, recto only, top edge perforated as issued, merest small faint area of yellowing along outer left margin, small soft crease along right margin, else clean. (IO). Moscow: State Merchant Air Service, [1923]
rare russian constructivist artifact by one of its most prolific and versatile practitioners. Printed specimens such as this from the early Soviet-era are notorious for their often poor condition, but this copy is still clean and bright. Initially a partially privatized company, Dobrolet was predictably reconstituted in 1930 as a part of the state-run airline. By 1932 the now combined airline was renamed Aeroflot. "Rodchenko designed the logo for this letterhead, the typography was probably determined by a commercial printer" (Lupton & Cohen, Letters From the Avant-Garde, 1996, page 29).
