Vladimir Mayakovsky — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works18

Museum Acquisitions

Poster for the play Mystery Bouffe (Misteriia Buff) by Vladimir Mayakovsky, directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mayakovsky, Communal Theater of Musical Drama (Kommunal’nyi teatr muzykal’noi dramy), Petrograd, November 7–9, 1918, 1918

Acquired 2018

Lithograph with watercolor additions

Art Institute of Chicago

For an Entire Month the Turks did Float, beneath a Crescent Moon; but Like the Turks in the City Sinop They Didn't Forsee the Flood, 1914

Acquired 2009

Color lithograph on cream wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

A Sultan by the port did sit, and smacked his nose into my fist. (Ekh sultan sidel' by v Port, / drakoi ryla ne poporti.), 1914

Acquired 2009

Color lithograph on cream wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

You'll Never Get to Paris, Fritz, though You Might through Thick and Thin. And if You get to Paris, Fritz, We'll be in Berlin! (Ekh ty nemets, pri da pri zhe / ne dopresh chtob sest' v Parizhe / i uzh bratets - klinom klin: / ty v Parizh, a my v Berlin!), 1914

Acquired 2009

Color lithograph on cream wove paper

MoMA

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914

Acquired 2001

Lithograph

MoMA

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914

Acquired 2001

Lithograph

MoMA

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914

Acquired 2001

Lithograph

MoMA

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914

Acquired 2001

Lithograph

MoMA

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914

Acquired 2001

Lithograph

MoMA

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914

Acquired 2001

Lithograph

MoMA

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914

Acquired 2001

Lithograph

MoMA

Ni znakhar', ni bog, ni angely boga - krest'ianstvu ne podmoga (Neither Healer, nor God, nor the Angels of God Are Any Help to the Peasantry), 1923

Acquired 2001

Book with letterpress illustrations

MoMA

Rzhanoe slovo. Revoliutsionnaia khrestomatiia futuristov (Rye-word: A Futurists' Revolutionary Reader), 1918

Acquired 2001

Book with letterpress cover

MoMA

Sovetskaia azbuka, 1919

Acquired 2001

Cover with lithographed manuscript design with watercolor additions on front; lithographed manuscript text incorporating 28 illustrations with watercolor additions

MoMA

Misteriia-Buff. Geroicheskoe epicheskoe i satiricheskoe izobrazhenie nashei epokhi (Mystery Bouffe: A Heroical, Epical and Satirical Portrayal of our Times), 1918

Acquired 2001

Cover with lithographed manuscript text and illustration on front

MoMA

Maiakovskaia galereia. Te kogo ia nikogda ne videl (Mayakovsky Gallery: Those I Have Never Seen), 1923

Acquired 2001

Book with fifteen letterpress illustrations (including cover)

MoMA

Untitled anti-German propaganda poster from the First World War, ("The Battle of Sokal"), 1914

Acquired 2001

Lithograph

Previous Sales

Christie's

ROSTA WINDOW

£1,375 ($2k USD)

Nov 2011

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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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Museum of Modern Art · New York City, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession 456.2018 · Lithograph with watercolor additions

The Merrill C. Berman Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Alice and Tom Tisch, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, David Booth, Marlene Hess…

For an Entire Month the Turks did Float, beneath a Crescent Moon; but Like the Turks in the City Sinop They Didn't Forsee the Flood

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession 2009.279 · Color lithograph on cream wove paper

Wirt D. Walker Trust

A Sultan by the port did sit, and smacked his nose into my fist. (Ekh sultan sidel' by v Port, / drakoi ryla ne poporti.)

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession 2009.277 · Color lithograph on cream wove paper

The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession 2009.278 · Color lithograph on cream wove paper

Highland Park Community Associates

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Museum of Modern Art · New York City, United States · Acquired 2001 · Accession 423.2001.18 · Lithograph