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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1998.53
People
Boris Vsevolodovich Ignatovich, Ukrainian (Slutzk, Ukraine 1899 - 1976 Moscow, USSR)
Title
Seventh Soviet Congress of Komsomol
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1938
Places
Creation Place: Europe, U.S.S.R.
Culture
Ukrainian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194834

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
19.2 x 28.6 cm (7 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite, Russian (translated by Timothy Harte, Ph.d candidate, Slavic Dept., Harvard U.): "7th All Soviet Conference"
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite, Russian (tranlated by Timothy Harte, Ph.d candidate, Slavic Dept, Harvard U.): [Soviet abbreviation, possibly "Power to Komsomal"]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [printer's marks]
  • stamp: verso, lower center, ink, stamped, Czechoslovakian: univ. prof. ing. lubomir linhart
    praha 2 dova c. 7 telefan 295420
  • inscription: verso, lower center, Russian: [illegible first name and patronymic]

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
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
P1998.53
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, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000

Verification Level

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