Draft of a poster for Culture League exhibition in Moscow March-April 1922 (with participation of N. Altman, M. Chagall and D. Shterenberg; Culture League was a famous cultural and political association of Jewish artists of the 1920-s – 30-s in Russia and Ukraine).

Indian ink on paper, signed with initials and dated (19)22 low left; inscribed with a critical comment addressing revolutionary events in Russia on the left margin.

On the reverse: a cubistic scene of two nude figures with a title in Aramaic(?). 4x8 inches.

Bibliography: Nathan Altman. Text by Mark Etkind. VEB Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 1984 (a final version of the poster is illustrated on page 178; a similar cubistic drawing is illustrated on page 78)

Provenance: estate of Alexander Leonidovich Pasternak (brother of the poet Boris Pasternak) – was put into the book that Nathan Altman presented to Alexander Pasternak in 1966

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