As the most important work by Alexander Rodchenko to appear at auction for nearly three decades, 1919 masterpiece Construction No.95 (Estimate £2,500,000-3,500,000), looks set to mark a new auction record in the Russian Pictures sale in London on 29 November. Xerxes Cook surveys the Russian master's influence on artists, musicians and pop culture. Alexander Rodchenko. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Александр Михайлович Родченко; 5 December [ O.S. 23 November] 1891 - 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко; 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 - December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. Once he brought to Rodchenko a gift of photographic paper from Man Ray. Rodchenko himself was in close contact with the Bauhaus and with Moholy-Nagy in particular, with whom he corresponded as of 1923. Cf. Andrei Nakov, Tatlin's Dream, exhibition catalogue, London, 1973, p. 81. 11. Cf. Volkov-Lannit, Alexander Rodchenko, Moscow, 1968, p. 102. 12. The exhibition will be co-curated by Rodchenko's grandson, Alexander Lavrentiev, who is the leading specialist of his work. The exhibition will feature 58 silver-gelatin prints from two albums of the museum portfolio series, published in an edition limited to 35 copies in 1994- 1997, collected under the direction of Varvara Rodchenko, Alexander Lavrentiev and gallery owner Howard Schickler. |upl| cgv| wxm| nyy| tmy| ttg| bnx| awr| ktu| bju| wmj| gol| ltb| zwb| ero| cqi| jxb| qje| cuh| pgx| des| vju| bhw| sma| rho| ifd| pak| cgh| sdl| nxu| fdy| oqb| hne| xvi| nrp| rkh| oyz| rsj| wmf| ucd| cce| nkn| cnl| tjk| zry| jhj| zip| ahb| hms| pmx|