Skip to content
Go to Grisebach homepage

All lots

Previous Lot

Next Lot

Lot

2206R

Alexander Zhitomirsky (i.e. Alexander Arnoldowitsch Schitomirski)

Rostow (Don)/Russia 1907 – 1993 Moscow

This Corporal is Leading Germany into a Catastrophe. 1941

Later gelatin silver print of a photomontage. 23,9 × 14,9 cm (9 ⅜ × 5 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Alexander Zhitomirsky (i.e. Alexander Arnoldowitsch Schitomirski). This Corporal is Leading Germany into a Catastrophe. 1941.

Estimate:

EUR 900

 

- 1,200

USD 989

 

- 1,320

Sold for:

562 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2019

Photography, Wednesday, 27.11.2019

Information

Later gelatin silver print of a photomontage. 23,9 × 14,9 cm (9 ⅜ × 5 ⅞ in.). At upper edge mounted on original cardboard (35,3 x 23,3 cm), thereupon titled by Alexander Zhitomirsky with blue ballpoint pen in Cyrillic script. On the reverse inscribed in pencil by his son as well as inscribed and numbered in pencil by another hand.

Exh. cat.: Alexander Zhitomirsky. Political Photomontage. San Francisco, Robert Koch Gallery, 1994, p. 9 (there as leaflet) / Exh. cat.: Aleksandr Zhitomirsky. Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2016, p. 74, ill. 4.2 and p. 123, pl. 13 (there each as leaflet)

More works from Alexander Zhitomirsky (i.e. Alexander Arnoldowitsch Schitomirski)