Beschreibung:

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
The present lot is a plaster cast of the 1936 sculpture created by Vera Mukhina as a model for the 24.5 metre stainless steel monument, which crowned the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. Provenance: Acquired by the present owner from the ROSIZO Sculpture Depository in Moscow in 1993. Private collection, UK. Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by Marfa Zamkova, Mukhina’s granddaughter. Exhibited: Tyrannei des Schönen. Architektur der Stalin-Zeit , MAK Museum, Vienna, 6 April–17 July 1994. Superwoman. Work, Build and Don’t Whine , GRAD gallery, London, 18 June–15 October 2016. Related literature: For other casts of the model, see E. Petrova (ed.), Vera Mukhina , St Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2009, pp. 60, 61, plates 26, 27, illustrated; pp. 151, 152, Nos. 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49, listed. Masterpieces of Soviet Painting and Sculpture , London, Unicorn, 2016, p. 279, illustrated. For the final monument, see postcards, Exposition Internationale , Paris, 1937. B. Ternovets, V. I. Mukhina , Moscow–Leningrad, IZOGIZ, 1937, illustrated. P. Suzdalev, “Rabochii i kolkhoznitsa”, Novyi mir , No. 7, 1971, illustrated. O. Voronova, Vera Ignatievna Mukhina , Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1976, illustrated. P. Suzdalev, Vera Ignatievna Mukhina , Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1981, illustrated. N. Voronov, Rabochii i kolkhoznitsa , Moscow, Moskovskii rabochii, 1990, illustrated. A. Rogachev, Prospekty sovetskoi Moskvy. Istoriia rekonstruktsii glavnykh ulits goroda. 1935–1990 gg. , Moscow, Tsentrpoligraf, 2015, illustrated.