Leonid Vesnin, recipient: Jacques Lipchitz

Postcard from Leonid Vesnin and other Soviet architects to Jacques Lipchitz

13 October 1928

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Created by: Leonid Vesnin 1880 – 1933
Recipient: Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Title: Postcard from Leonid Vesnin and other Soviet architects to Jacques Lipchitz
Date: 13 October 1928
Description: In this postcard Vesnin and several other Soviet architects, including his brother Viktor Vesnin, his students Georgy Orlov and Andrey Burov, as well as Ivan Leonidov. 'We are saluting the greatest sculptor in the world'.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
Reference: TGA 897/1/1/388

Archive context

Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
- - Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
  - - Postcard from Leonid Vesnin and other Soviet architects to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/388