Oct 21, 2003 - Sale 1981

Sale 1981 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 4,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
SEDEL'NIKOV, NIKOLAI (1905- ? )
Photomontage [lynching in front of the U. S. Capitol]. Hand-painted silver prints, 71/2x5 inches (19.1x12.7 cm.), initialed "HC" in ink on recto; with Russian notations crediting Sedel"nikov, in pencil, on mount verso. 1935
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In the 1920's Sedel'nikov was employed by the state publishing house (Gozisdat) as a typographer, and performed various functions as an editor and designer. In the 1930s he honed his skills as a book and magazine designer. His work, which incorporated photography and hand-painting, was included in book exhibitions, and most recently in "The Russian Avant-Garde Book," at the Museum of Modern Art, in 2002.