Alexander Rodchenko - Collection of Corbeau and Renard assembled by Gerd Sander Part II London Friday, May 16, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    From the Collection of the Rodchenko Family

  • Catalogue Essay

    The building on the photograph is known as the Ginsburg House, designed by the architect Moisei Ginsburg and built in 1928-1930. It was the first experimental building for the Narkomfin (People’s Commissariat of Finances) employees and included Le Corbusier’s architectural ideas of a commune house. For Rodchenko this house represented the urban modernity. This symbol of progress stood out starkly from the general city architecture in Moscow of the period. The building’s architecture reflects Rodchenko’s linear and highly geometrical compositions.
    The Narkomfin building is still present on Moscow’s landscape, however, no longer in the perfect state found in Rodchenko’s photographs.

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Building

1931
Gelatin silver print.
23.2 x 29.2 cm. (9 1/8 x 11 1/2 in).
Dated in pencil and credit stamp on the verso.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Collection of Corbeau and Renard assembled by Gerd Sander Part II

17 May 2008, 3pm
London