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- Import permit issued by Soviet trade mission in France
- Date
- 31 July 1936
- 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 897/3/1/3/10
Description
Permit is issued to the organisation 'Vsekokhudozhnik' (address: Moscow, Kuznetsky most, 11) [abbreviation for 'All-Cooperative-Artist', which commissioned to Jacques Lipchitz to produce a monument later titled 'Joy of life towards the new world]. The permit has a place for the stamp and the signature of the deputy trade representative of the USSR in France L. Nuller. It permits the importation from Paris of one plaster sculpture, packed in two boxes, without the right to carry any currency but with the right to export it back later.
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Business papers TGA 897/3 (60)
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- Exhibitions TGA 897/3/1 (60)
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- Unrealised exhibitions in Moscow (1937-39) TGA 897/3/1/3 (26)
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- Import permit issued by Soviet trade mission in France TGA 897/3/1/3/10