Aleksandr Rodchenko. 1905—October: Soviets of the Workers’ Deputies (1905—Oktiabr’: sovety rabochikh deputatov) (Poster no. 9 of 25 from The History of the All-Union Communist Party [of Bolsheviks] in Posters [lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh])

Aleksandr Rodchenko

1905—October: Soviets of the Workers’ Deputies (1905—Oktiabr’: sovety rabochikh deputatov) (Poster no. 9 of 25 from The History of the All-Union Communist Party [of Bolsheviks] in Posters [lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh])

c.1926

Letterpress

Not on view

Medium Letterpress
Dimensions 27 3/4 × 20 1/2" (70.5 × 52.1 cm)
Publisher Publishing House of the Communist Academy and the Museum of the Revolution of the Soviet Union
Printer The V.T.U. Lithography and Printing Works in the name of comrade Dunaev, Moscow
Credit The Merrill C. Berman Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Alice and Tom Tisch, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, David Booth, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, Jack Shear, the Patricia Bonfield Endowed Acquisition Fund for the Design Collection, Daniel and Jane Och, The Orentreich Family Foundation, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, The Modern Women's Fund; and by exchange: Gift of Jean Dubuffet in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, and the Richard S. Zeisler Bequest
Object number 625.2018
Department Architecture and Design

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Aleksandr Rodchenko

Aleksandr Rodchenko

Russian, 1891–1956 246 works online

When The Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. , met Aleksandr Rodchenko on his trip to Moscow in 1927—one of the first times an Anglophone art historian had visited the Soviet Union in the years since the Russian Revolution—he wrote, “Rodchenko showed us an appalling variety of things—Suprematist paintings (preceded by the earliest geometrical things I’ve seen, 1915, done with compass)—woodcuts, linoleum cuts, posters, book designs, photographs, kino sets, etc….

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