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Cigarette Seller on Strastnaya Square
Alexander RodchenkoWW-1927-008617
1927·Gelatin silver print·Image: 11 5/16 in. × 17 in. (28.7 × 43.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/16 in. × 17 in. (28.7 × 43.2 cm)
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2015
Catalogue
- Year
- 1927
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 11 5/16 in. × 17 in. (28.7 × 43.2 cm) Sheet: 11 5/16 in. × 17 in. (28.7 × 43.2 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Alexander Rodchenko
Artist

Alexander Rodchenko
Painting
Alexander Rodchenko rejected easel painting on ideological grounds, pioneering abstract compositions with dynamic diagonals and monochrome canvases before turning to graphic design, propaganda posters, and photomontage as tools for integrating art into Soviet mass culture. A central figure in Russian Constructivism and the Productivist movement, he declared painting's logical endpoint with his 1921 series of pure color canvases.
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- Alexander Rodchenko
- Year
- 1927
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 11 5/16 in. × 17 in. (28.7 × 43.2 cm) Sheet: 11 5/16 in. × 17 in. (28.7 × 43.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1927-008617
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified