Fine Arts · Lotto 4129
[China]. Album
containing ±160 photographs and snapshots, 1949-1950, various sizes, contemp. rexine album, obl. 4to.
ADDED: a cloth portrait of Mao smoking a cigarette.
- Lotto
- 4129
- Sezione
- FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Stima
- 200 € – 300 €
- Aggiudicato
- 425 €
- Foto
- 3 foto
Note
Album of a member of a Soviet delegation to China. With annotation on first leaf [in Russian]: People's Republic of China. From 2/X-1949 to 17/V-1950. Arrival in Beijing". The People's Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao on October 1st 1949. Interesting album containing images from the earliest days of the PRC, incl. many lively street views, (group) photographs of delegation members, mass gymnastics etc.