More than 400 works, from the period spanning the October Revolution of 1917 to Stalin’s death in 1953, tell the story of art under the Soviets. Avant-garde movements like Constructivism and Suprematism are presented alongside the doctrine of socialist realism to explore the various ways in which art was deployed for political ends. Find out more from the Grand Palais’s website.
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Photograph of Alexander Rodchenko in a Productivist costume made by his wife Varvara Stepanova (1923), Mikhaïl Kaufman. Photo: © A. Rodchenko & V. Stepanova Archive
Millions of workers! Join the socialist competition! (c. 1927), Gustav Klucis. Photo: © Collection du musée national des Beaux-Arts de Lettonie
Fantasy (1925), Kouzma Petrov-Vodkine. Photo: © State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Pure Red (1921), Alexander Rodchenko. Photo: A. Rodchenko & V. Stepanova Archive, © Adagp, Paris, 2019.
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