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

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  • Catalogue Essay

    The harvest was vital in the propaganda machine. The Soviet Union needed visual documentation of its abundance and the photographers were sent to document it. The apples, which grew in every region of the Soviet Union, were the prime symbol of fertility of the Soviet land.

31

The Apple 'Antonovka'

1936
Gelatin silver print.
26 x 39.1 cm. (10 1/4 x 15 3/8 in).
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
£500 - 700 

Sold for £625

Collection of Corbeau and Renard assembled by Gerd Sander Part II

17 May 2008, 3pm
London