May 16, 2024 - Sale 2669

Sale 2669 - Lot 246

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
DMITRI BALTERMANTS (1912-1990)
The Queue for Lenin's Tomb. Silver print, the image measuring 17⅜x23⅝ inches (44.1x60 cm.), with Baltermants' Estate stamp on verso. 1959

Provenance: The Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl

One of Baltermants' great socialist-realist photographs showing a reverent line of devoted Soviets outside Lenin's mausoleum on a bitter winter afternoon.