Portrait of Leon Trotsky. No place or date [Mexico, ca. 1939-1940].
Original photograph, silver print (240 x 178 mm), mounted on card stock with a letter from Natalia Sedova-Trotsky dated May 11, 1941.
Beautiful photographic portrait of the exiled revolutionary.
The print is signed in pencil on the card stock: "Apey, U.S.A."
Handwritten by Leon Trotsky's widow in the lower right corner of the photograph:
To our dearest and most faithful friends Sophie and Manuel with deepest feelings
Natalia Trotsky
Coyoacán May 11, 1941
It was precisely in Coyoacán, a district of Mexico City, that Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of Stalin nearly a year earlier, on August 20, 1940.
Provenance: André Breton (cat. 2003, no. 5426).
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