Alexander Rodchenko
Portrait of V.V. Mayakovsky

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Artist Alexander Rodchenko Russian, 1891–1956

CultureRussian

Titles

Portrait of V.V. Mayakovsky

Date1924

PlaceRussia

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (21.6 × 14.9 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (21.6 × 14.9 cm)
Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund

Object number95.329

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Howard Schickler Fine Arts, Brooklyn]; purchased by MFAH, 1995.
Exhibition History"A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 14–December 30, 2001.

"Soviet Photography," The Jewish Museum, New York, September 25, 2015–February 7, 2016; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 11–July 4, 2016; Joods Historiche Museum, Amsterdam, July 27–November 27, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

There is a signature and writing "1924" in black ink, upper verso. There is a stamp in black ink, center verso. There is writing and "1 SK P930600A" in pencil, verso. In blue ink, lower right verso: "S203KA 2 3X".

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