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ALBERT ABRAMOVITZ The Drill.
Wood engraving, 1935. 302 x 229 mm; 101/4x 77/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Moscow" in pencil, lower margin. A fine, dark impression on off-white wove paper.
Born in Latvia, Albert Abramovitz studied at the Académie Colorossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére in Paris, and at the Imperial Art School, Odessa, Russia. He lived and painted in Paris from 1906 to 1916 and then immigrated to the United States. Returning to Russia to document the construction of the Moscow Subway from 1933 to 1935, he then worked for the New York City FAP WPA from 1935 to 1939.
