Ivan Shagin
Generalissimo Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR

Generalissimo Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR

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Generalissimo Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR
ArtistRussian, 1904–1982
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Generalissimo Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR
Date1945
MediumGelatin silver print with applied color
DimensionsAt opening: 9 × 6 11/16 in. (22.9 × 17 cm)
Mat: 15 11/16 × 11 3/16 in. (39.9 × 28.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern and Geoffrey Koslov
Object number2016.293
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Librairie Serge Plantureux, Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in black ink and pencil and printed in black, recto: Генералиссимус Советского Союза Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин (типографский набор)
Карандашные пометки: ширина на полосе 7кв (квадратов) – 12.5 см
Кл. 12 рубл. Стр
Кл. 12 дублирован прол разр 6 п
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Верховный Главнокомандующий Вооруженными силами СССР
Кл 10 рубл стр [Generalissimo of the Soviet Union Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (typesetting)
Pencil notes: width on a strip of 7kv (squares) - 12.5 cm
Cl. 12 lineage chopped font
Cl. 12 dubbed prol res 6 n
Dial by pattern:
Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR
Cl 10 lineage chopped font]

Inscribed in ink, verso, top left:
инв 30 // Портрет печатался в // журн. Танкист №12 // декабрь – 1949 год

Inscribed in ink, verso, bottom right corner: иллюстрац.фонд 5.ii.52г.

Stamped in black, verso, center:
Военизд..т отд. Графики
Автор
Н…е
Исполнитель
Цена
Предм
Проверено: автор
Редактор
Инструктор

Inscribed in ink in stamp, verso, center:
Для всех журналов
Мовчан
900 р.

Inscribed in pencil:
[Signatures of three people] grey: Докуч… (Докучаев?)
Гонч (Гончаров?)
Red:
Кнор..г (Кнорринг?) 4/11 – 49

Inscribed in ink, verso, top left: Inv 30
The portrait was printed in a magazine. Tanker No. 12 December - 1949
Right down corner: illustration fund 5.ii.52
Black stamp:
Voenizd..t otd. Graphs
Author
Not
Executor
Price

Subject
Verified: author
Editor
Instructor
and Fontaine pen in the stamp:
For all magazines
Movchan
900 rubles
Pencil:
Signatures of three people: gray: Dokuch… (Dokuchaev?)
Gonch (Goncharov?)
Red:
Knor..g (Knorring?) 4/11 - 49

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