'Architectural Study'

BY IAKOV CHERNIKHOV, 1932

Details

'Architectural Study'
By Iakov Chernikhov, 1932
Pencil and bodycolour on board
9.1/8 by 11.7/8in. (23.2 by 30.2cm.)
Signed and dated Archit. Ia. Chernikhov/1932

Provenance

Purchased in 1927 from the Fides Neue Kunst Gallery, Dresden and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

Palazzo delle Esposizione, Architettura nel paese dei Soviet 1917-1933, 1982, p. 131, fig. 118

Exhibited

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizione, Architettura nel paese dei Soviet 1917-1933, 1982
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Tchernikhov: Fantaisies architecturales, 1985

Lot Essay

Entitled 'Union of separate elements of structure into a harmonious visual building. Visual characteristics or the simplified construction expressed in a peaceful colour scheme', the present lot is the original for Fantasy No. 30 in Chernikhov's Architectural Fantasies, Leningrad, 1930.

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