ARKADY SHAIKHET (1898–1957) Iljitschows Glühbirne / The Ilyich’s lamp, USSR 1926

Vintage silver print 7,9 x 11,1 cm Annotated “Shaikhet” in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mounted piece of paper on the reverse PROVENANCE Howard Schickler Fine Art, New York LITERATURE Daniela Mrázkowá, Wladimir Remeš, Die Sowjetunion zwischen den Kriegen, Oldenburg-Hamburg-München 1981, p. 41; Grigory Shudakov, Pioneers of Soviet Photography, London–Paris 1983, p. 186-187; Yury Rybchinsky (ed.), Photoestapheta. From Rodchenko to our days, Moscow 2006, p. 88; Sowjetische Fotografen 1917–1940, Berlin 1980, p. 83.