© Bertolami Fine Art — view on Bertolami Fine Art website ↗Laughing Pioneer, 1930
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Auction result
Composition
Alexander Rodchenko (Russian, 1891–1956) · 1919
CHF 150,000 hammer
≈ $164,715≈ £127,115≈ €139,200
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- Medium
- Watercolor · Works on paper all watercolor results →As published: “Watercolour and ink”
- Category
- Watercolors
- Dimensions
- 37,2 x 29,3 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 272: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries - Part 1 (272)
- Date
- September 18, 2020
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 157
- Estimate
- CHF 30,000 – — (≈ $32,943) (≈ £25,423) (≈ €27,840)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (4)
- Gift of the artist to the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1936), on the reverse with several labels of the museum and the inventory number "30.36"
- Annely Juda Fine Art, London
- Saidenberg Gallery, New York; from there
- Private collection USA
Exhibitions (2)
- London 1983, Annely Juda Fine Art, The First Russian Show - A Commemoration, Kat. Nr. 64, reprod. pag. 131
- London 1984, Annely Juda Fine Art, Dada - Constructivism, Kat. Nr. 127
As published by Kornfeld.
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