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Station Lights: P.135-1961

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Station Lights

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Maslennikova, Irina Nikolaevna

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Description

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.

Notes

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).

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1961-07) by The Perceval Fund

Dating

20th Century
Production date: AD 1960

Note

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.

School or Style

Russian

Components of the work

Image Height 450 mm Width 350 mm
Sheet Height 625 mm Width 470 mm

Techniques used in production

Lithography : Colour printing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: И Масленникова 60
  • Location: Lower right
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in pencil
  • Type: Signature and date

Inscription present: written using the cyrillic alphabet.

  • Location: Lower left
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in pencil
  • Type: Title
  • Text: pale suede 15mm
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in pencil
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: 50
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in pencil
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Maslenikova
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in pencil
  • Type: Inscription

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Identification numbers

Accession number: P.135-1961
Primary reference Number: 223214

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 17 July 2018 Updated: Wednesday 23 March 2022

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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