View our publication Aleksandr Rodchenko: Works in the Merrill C. Berman Collection, 1923–1935
Rezinotrest (Rubber Trust)
Likely Varvara Stepanova (after original by Rodchenko)
Likely reconstruction after poster design: Galoshi Rezinotresta (Rubber Trust Galoshes), likely 1965 (after 1923 design)
Text by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930): Protection in the rain and slush. Without galoshes, Europe can only sit and cry
Gouache, cut-and-pasted halftone print, and pencil on gelatin silver print
8 1/4 x 5 7/8” (21 x 14.9 cm)
Poster: Rezinotrest (Rubber Trust) Galoshes, 1923
Text by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930): Buy! People of the East! The best galoshes, brought by camel
Lithograph
28 3/16 x 19 13/16” (71.6 x 50.3 cm)
Poster: Rezinotrest (Rubber Trust) Galoshes, 1923
Text by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930): Galoshes of the Rubber Trust. Simply a delight! Worn north, west, south, and east
Lithograph
27 1/2 x 19 3/4” (70 x 50.2 cm)
Dobrolet
Poster: Russian state airline Dobrolet, 1923
Text: Everyone... Everyone... Everyone... He who is not a stockholder in Dobrolet is not a citizen of the USSR. One gold ruble makes anyone a stockholder in Dobrolet
Lithograph
13 1/4 x 17 3/4" (33.7 x 45.1 cm)
Poster: Russian state airline Dobrolet, 1923
Lithograph
27 3/4 x 20 3/4” (70.5 x 52.7 cm)
Poster: Russian state airline Dobrolet, 1923
Lithograph
27 3/4 x 20 1/8” (70.5 x 51.1 cm)
Mossel’prom
Unfolded packaging: “Zebra” cookies, Red October factory, Moscow, 1924
With text by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930).
Lithograph
13 7/8 x 5 11/16 " (26 x 14.5 cm)
Poster: Mossel’prom “Cinema” Cigarettes, 25 count, 1924
Lithograph
13 1/16 x 9 9/16” (33.2 x 24.3 cm)
Publishing
Poster: Lef (Journal of the left front of the arts), 6 issues to appear in 1924, 1923–24
Lithograph
26 7/8 x 20 7/8” (68.3 x 53 cm)
Poster: Molodaia gvardiia (The Young Guard) Publishing House, 1924
Lithograph
32 7/8 x 23 13/16” (83.5 x 60.5 cm)
Poster: Red Army Soldier, Bring Gosizdat Books to Every House. Books are Light and Knowledge, 1925
Lithograph
28 1/4 x 42 1/2” (71.8 x 108 cm)
Unions
Poster: MGSPS (Moscow City Council of Professional Unions), 1925
Lithograph
14 x 9 15/16” (35.6 x 25.2 cm)
Poster: MGSPS (Moscow City Council of Professional Unions), 1925
Lithograph
9 15/16 x 13 7/8” (25.2 x 35.2 cm)
Film
Poster: Cinema-Eye, six films by Dziga Vertov, 1924
Lithograph
36 1/2 x 27 1/2” (92.7 x 69.9 cm)
Poster: Battleship Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
Lithograph
28 1/4 x 42 1/2” (71.8 x 108 cm)
Poster: One Sixth of the World, a film by Dziga Vertov, 1926
Lithograph
42 x 27 3/8” (106.7 x 69.5 cm)
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