GEORGIY ZIMIN (RUSSIAN 1901-1985) At the Ashkhabad Marketplace, 1934 vintage photograph 29 x 16 cm (11 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.)
LOT NOTES Grigory Zimin was a well-known Soviet graphic artist and photographer. Grigory studied in VKhUTEMAS, the famous school of Russian Avant-garde under Korolev and Lavinsky.
PROVENANCE Acquired from the estate of the artist.
LOT NOTES Grigory Zimin was a well-known Soviet graphic artist and photographer. Grigory studied in VKhUTEMAS, the famous school of Russian Avant-garde under Korolev and Lavinsky.
LOT NOTES Georgiy Zimin was a well-known Russian painter and photographer who worked in Moscow for his entire life. After graduating from VKhUTEMAS in 1920, he showed regularly at exhibitions curated by the Russian Art of Movement group. In the late 1920s, he experimented with photograms, comparable to those made by his contemporary, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.