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GEORGES EREMINE (YURI EREMIN, 1881-1948)
CAUCASUS / INTOURIST / MOSCOW HOTEL METROPOLE. Circa 1930s.
27 1/2x18 1/2 inches, 69 3/4x47 cm. The 7th Mospoligraph's Printing Office, Moscow. Condition A / A-: small tear at bottom edge; creases in lower right margin. Paper.
Eremine traveled extensively throughout Europe studying art, eventually becoming an accomplished and acclaimed pictorialist photographer. He opened a Secessionist photography studio in Moscow in the years following the First World War, worked for press agencies, had his work published in magazines, and began teaching at several Russian institutions. This is one in an unusual series of photographic travel posters depicting regions of the Soviet Union and also mentioning the Hotel Metropole, a lavish and grand establishment that opened again to foreign visitors in the early 1930s. Not in Intourist.
