Aleksandr Rodchenko

The October Revolution, 1917 (1917 Oktiabr’skaia revoliutsiia). Poster no. 17 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)

c. 1926

Lithograph

Not on view

Medium Lithograph
Dimensions sheet (irreg.): 28 7/16 × 21 1/4" (72.2 × 54 cm)
Publisher Publishing House of the Communist Academy and the Museum of the Revolution of the Soviet Union
Printer Academic-Manufacturing Graphic Workshop of the Saratov State Artistic-Industrial Technical School
Credit Gift of Merrill C. Berman and Dalia S. Berman
Object number 845.2019
Department Drawings and Prints

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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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