Alexander Rodchenko
1924
Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky

Gelatin silver print
29.1 x 20.3 cm
 
Christie's - New York
Christies - NY (Sale 2086: Lot 0110 - Oct 17, 2007 - On Artists: Photographs from the Collection of Rex, Inc.)
 
Extensive annotations and 2 'Pesell' stamps (on the verso),br> 
Rodtschenko Fotograf 1891-1956, Arkana Verlag, Göttingen, 1989, pl. 4, p. 16, variant; Lavrentiev, Alexander Rodchenko Photography 1924-1954, Knickerbocker Press, 1995, pl. 73, p. 72, variant; Aleksandr Rodchenko, The Museum of Modern Art, 1998, pl. 143, p. 213, variant
 
This is the retouched vintage print used for reproduction as the back cover of Conversation with a Tax Inspector about Poetry, 1924.
 
LL/23715