c. 1920
red and black pencils on paper
22 x 14.6 cm (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 in.)
initialed in Cyrillic G. ST. lower left with official stamp, possibly of OBMOKhU (Society of Young Artists) or INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture)




LOT NOTES
Famous Russian Avant-garde artist duo Vladimir and Gerorgii Stenberg founded the OBMOKhU (Society of Young Artists) in 1919 and participated in its group exhibitions in Moscow in 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1923. The brothers and Konstantin Medunetskii held their own "Constructivists" exhibition, which was accompanied by a Constructivist manifesto, in January 1922 at the Poets Cafe in Moscow. In 1920s-30s they were well established as members of the avant-garde in Moscow and of Moscow's INKhUK (INstitut KHUdozhestvennoy Kultury, or Institute of Artistic Culture). Other INKhUK members included Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Lyubov Popova, Medunetskii and other artists, architects, theoreticians, and art historians.