2. DMITRI BALTERMANTS (Lot 303)
Yuri Gagarin with family, 1961
Gelatin silver print. This work is believed to be printed c. 1960s. 59.7 x 50.5 cm (23 1 /2 x 19 7 /8 in). Signed, titled in Cyrillic in ink and 'Photo by D. Baltermants, Magazine Ogoniok 'stamp on the verso.
ESTIMATE £ 2,000-3,000
SOLD AT £ 6,875
PROVENANCE White Space Gallery, London
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3.ALBERTO KORDA (Lot 305)
Fidel Castro shooting pheasant with Kruschev, c. 1960s
Gelatin silver print. 12.1 x 10.8 cm (4 3 /4 x 4 1 /4 in). Titled 'Fidel en la URSS' in ink and Korda studio stamp on the verso.
ESTIMATE £ 700-900
SOLD AT £ 1,375
PROVENANCE Art Beaufort, Hamburg
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4.ALEXANDER RODCHENKO (Lot 233)
Mayakovsky with Scottie, 1924
Gelatin silver print. 43.8 x 32.1 cm (17 1 /4 x 12 5 /8 in). Two credit stamps and credit, title, date in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.
ESTIMATE £ 18,000-22,000 Ω
SOLD AT £ 15,000
PROVENANCE Rodchenko /Stepanova Archives, Moscow; Howard Schickler Fine Art, New York; Private Collection, USA
LITERATURE A. Lavrentiev, Alexander Rodchenko: Photography, 1924-1954, New Jersey: Knickerbocker Press, 1996, p. 137; G. Shudakov et al., Pioneers of Soviet Photography, London: Thames and Hudson, 1983, p. 217; Revolution in Photography, Moscow: Moscow House of Photography, 2008, p. 42
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5.MIKHAIL OSHERKOV (Lot 256)
Maxim Gorky, c. 1930
Gelatin silver print. 28.6 x 23.8 cm (11 1 /4 x 9 3 /8 in). Signed in ink, titled and dated 'July, 1934' in Cyrillic in pencil on the verso.
ESTIMATE £ 1,500-2,500 Ω
SOLD AT £ 1,125
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist in the 1990s; Private Collection, USA
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