Apr 24, 2014 - Sale 2346

Sale 2346 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 1,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GUSTAV KLUTSIS (1895-1938) [SPARTAKIADA.] Postcard. 1928.
5 3/4x4 inches, 14 1/2x10 1/4 cm. Izvestiya, Moscow.
Condition A-: corners slightly rubbed; ink writing (in Estonian) and postmark on verso.
"Klutsis punctuated several postcards with portraits of the late soviet leader [Lenin] . . . [here] Lenin is unexpectedly shown atop his own mausoleum, apparently the artist's attempt to suggest that Lenin's spirit remained alive" (The Soviet Photograph p. 49). Klutsis pl. 46, Witkovsky p. 45 and p. 59.
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