P1998.52: Sport Parade on Red Square, Moscow

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1998.52

People

Alexander Rodchenko, Russian (St. Petersburg, Russia 1891 - 1956 Moscow, USSR)

Title

Sport Parade on Red Square, Moscow

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1936

Places

Creation Place: Europe, U.S.S.R.

Culture

Russian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/195390

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

8.75 x 13.7 cm (3 7/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, Russian (translated by Timothy Harte, Ph.d candidate, Slavic Dept., Harvard U.), in artist's hand: Rodchenko
• stamp: verso, center, ink, stamp, Czechoslovakian: univ. prof. ing ubomir linhart
  praha 2 nove mesto ladova c. 7
• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: NY
• inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: D28

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. 591 Broadway, New York, New York 10012

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs

Copyright

© Alexander Rodchenko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1998

Object Number

P1998.52

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000
• Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2013 - 06/01/2013
• 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/26/2017 - 08/03/2017

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