Feb 29, 2024 - Sale 2660

Sale 2660 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000

SERGEI SENKIN (1894-1963)

[THROUGH THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL WE WILL GIVE THE COUNTRY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL TO BUILD SOCIALISM]. 1932.


40x27½ inches, 101½x69¾ cm. Oziz-Igoziz, Moscow.
Condition B+ / B: replaced losses and repaired tears with overpainting; creases and minor abrasions at edges and in image. Mounted on Japan.

Senkin studied art in Moscow before serving with Russian in World War I. He soon after met Gustav Klutsis and collaborated on photocollage projects with him, and later became a colleague of artist Dmitry Moor.