Gustav Klutsis (1895-1938)

Vintage silver print, mounted on card. Signed, dated and annotated by the artist on the mount.

Tupitsyn, M. 2004 pl. 57, p. 111 and further discussed at fig. 126, p. 189.

A rephotograph of collage work itself retouched in black ink, most notably in the central space of the typography, but also in the brim of the cap of the central figure and elsewhere. Overall surface is in good condition, and the mount although not of archival quality has survived well.
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Design for a series of illustrations (unpublished) for the history of All-Union Communist Party, 1924. A word between 'Marx' and 'Lenin' is effaced in black ink. Margarita Tupitsyn, the leading Klutsis scholar, in the work referenced below, has an interesting discussion of the iconography of this piece including the inclusion of a portrait of his wife, Kulagina.
Klutsis is still neglected as a montageur by comparison with such as El Lissitzky, John Heartfield, or Raoul Haussman.