Yakov Khalip
On Guard

On Guard
On Guard
On Guard
ArtistRussian, 1908–1980
CultureRussian
Titles
  • On Guard
Date1938
PlaceRussia
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 21 5/8 × 14 in. (54.9 × 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 28 × 24 in. (71.1 × 61 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1432
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceRodchenko family, Moskow.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Galerie Octant on 5/22/1988.
Exhibition History"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
Verso lower right: Russian (?) characters in red, "1938" in blue, "1941" in green
Left side reading vertically in black: "- 45 -", below in pencil: "$17 1-93-XL"

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