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collection owner: Jacques Lipchitz

Import permit issued by Soviet ministry of the foreign trade

25 July 1936

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Title
Import permit issued by Soviet ministry of the foreign trade
Date
25 July 1936
Description
Permit is issued to the organisation 'Vsekokhudozhnik' with which Jacques Lipchitz signed a contract earlier. The permit holds the stamp of 'Vsekokhudozhnik', a signature of the deputy minister Laganovsky and of the 'Vsekokhudozhnik' manager Nikola[ev]. It permits to the importation from Paris of one plaster sculpture, packed in two boxes, without the right to sell it [in the USSR] or to carry any currency.
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 897/3/1/3/8

Archive context

  • Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
    • Business papers TGA 897/3 (60)
      • Exhibitions TGA 897/3/1 (60)
        • Unrealised exhibitions in Moscow (1937-39) TGA 897/3/1/3 (26)
          • Import permit issued by Soviet ministry of the foreign trade TGA 897/3/1/3/8
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