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Self-portrait, wood, signed on the back V. Zamkova, c 1918 ( Mukhina has married A.A. Zamkov in 1918 and has been signing her works by a new family name just a short period after her marriage). 15 inches high. Compare: similar portrait in Скульптура XVIII – начало ХХ века. Государственный Русский Музей, Catalog, Leningrad, Iskusstvo, 1988, #799, p.108, illustrated.
It is known that in her most famous sculpture “Рабочий
и
колхозница”
Mukhina has exploited A. Zamkov’s and her own portrait features
as prototypes of the two main figures.
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