Vintage portrait

Stalin, Josef (Dzhugashvili), Russian dictator (1878-1953). Portrait photograph (vintage).

Probably Moscow, ca. 1935.

Albumen print, 209 x 269 mm, mounted on backing cardboard (298 x 400 mm).

 3.500,00

A large head-and-shoulders portrait of Stalin, shortly before the beginning of the Great Purges.

A few unobtrusive scuff marks; backing cardboard smudged and stained. Russian lab label on reverse: "Foto-Laboratorija, U.P.P. Leningradskogo Otdelenija, Muzfonda SSSR, Leningrad. Lenoblgorlit No. 1094". Rare.

Art.-Nr.: BN#45421 Schlagwörter: ,