Station Lights
Printmaker: Maslennikova, Irina Nikolaevna
View of a train station in the evening, a train leaving or arriving at the station, it's red rear lights showing and passengers holding umbrellas on the platform to the left. A footbridge carrying commuters from left to right, the figures silhouetted against the blue/grey evening sky.
History note: Selected by Eric Chamberlain and Carl Winter from the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition, _Lithographs by twenty-seven Soviet artists_ (9 May-10 June, 1961).
Method of acquisition: Bought (1961-07) by The Perceval Fund
20th Century
Production date:
AD 1960
Artist's Proof (one of ten). Another impression in the Anna and Leonid Frants Collection is dated 1959. See, _Lithography from Leningrad Eric Estorick's Adventure in Soviet Art_ (Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 20 November - 22 December 2019), p. 26.
Image
Height 450 mm
Width 350 mm
Sheet
Height 625 mm
Width 470 mm
Lithography : Colour printing
Inscription present: written using the cyrillic alphabet.
Accession number: P.135-1961
Primary reference Number: 223214
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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