May 10, 2016 - Sale 2414

Sale 2414 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO (1891-1956) [HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN POSTERS.] 1926.
28 3/4x21 inches, 73x53 1/4 cm. Mospoligraf, Moscow.
Condition B+: repaired tears and restored losses at edges; creases in margins and image.
In 1926, Rodchenko produced a series of 25 photomontage posters entitled The History of the all Russian Communist Party [VKP(b)] in Posters. They were commissioned by the Museum of the Revolution and were printed in many different Soviet languages to be distributed across the country. Each poster covers a separate historically notable moment within the Party's existence. The posters were comprised of news photographs, newspaper clippings and other documents, geometrically composed against a red and black background. All of the posters are numbered in the upper left hand corner. Published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This is the Kazakh version, in Arabic, of which only 500 were printed. Berman / Juan March p. 36.