16/11/2024
📸 Radio for the Village: a rare Soviet porcelain figural group, Naum Kongiser, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1927
📌Description:
Sculptor Naum Kongiser (1904-1984) trained at the former Academy of Arts in Leningrad. Following his graduation in 1926 from the sculpture department, he worked for the State Porcelain Manufactory and created the present composition, Radio for the Village. An example of the propaganda works produced by the manufactory during the 1920s, it embodies the goal of the revolution in reeducating an older and often illiterate population. Radio for the Village was released in a small edition and it was featured in anniversary and international exhibitions, including Art of the Peoples of the USSR, Moscow, 1927, which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution.
Another example of this model was sold Christie’s, London, November 25, 2019, lot 443.
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