Auction 93 / Lot 20

On the underside of the base a press mark with hammer, sickle and cogwheel and the date '1928' as well as a pressed modeler's mark 'AL' in Cyrillic for Anatoli Lukin. On the underside of the stand handwritten numbering '510510'. An unpainted version of the model designed by Matveev in 1926 is now in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Unlike Matvev's famous sculptures 'Woman with Shoe' and 'Woman with Bowl', which won the prize at the 1925 World's Fair in Paris, the present figure is very rare. In the context of Soviet propaganda it belongs to the agitation sculpture of the 1920s and 1930s. Hand min. rest.