A collection of thirty photographs from the archive of Szymon Boyko, Rodchenko's archive, and portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Alexander Rodchenko(1891-1956)

variously signed and inscribed, later silver prints: most inscribed and stamped by Szymon Boyko; the portrait of Mayakovsky - original silver print by Rodchenko. The rest of the photos are reproductions of different years from the late 1950s to the 1970s; 'Mosselprom' - late print from the author's Rodchenko's negative
size of largest: 37.5 x 29.5 cm (14 3/4 x 11 5/8 in). (30)

Provenance
Private collection, UK

The offered lot is a working archive of the Polish art historian and critic Szymon Bojko (1917–2014). Szymon was an educator and university lecturer, populariser of Polish contemporary paintings and screenwriter of documentaries on art. He knew Varvara Stepanova well and often visited Moscow in the 1960s. He was one of the first art historians who published materials about the Russian avant-garde in Polish, and then in French and English.