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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sergei Eisenstein, Untitled, 1930-1940 Sergei Eisenstein, Untitled, 1930-1940s

Sergei Eisenstein

Untitled, 1930-1940
Colour pencil on paper
29 x 44 cm
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Drawing was fundamental to Sergei Eisenstein's filmic and theoretical practices—if one should differentiate them. Starting from an early age, drawing was a recurrent activity for him. As his teenage friends...
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Drawing was fundamental to Sergei Eisenstein's filmic and theoretical practices—if one should differentiate them. Starting from an early age, drawing was a recurrent activity for him. As his teenage friends would recall, Eisenstein had a true passion for drawing, spending countless hours exercising his imagination humorously. Some of his drawings were published by newspapers in Saint Petersburg, and he would draw caricatures, sketches, and stage designs for theatre productions. Nevertheless, he was most prolific at drawing during his time in Mexico (1931–1932) for the occasion of a film project that he eventually had to leave unfinished.


The so-called ‘sex drawings’—coined by historian Joan Neuberger—which were kept hidden for long, abound in this time as a result of an emancipation from censorship in a tremendously inspiring moment in his career. In them we observe an array of sexual intercourses, fantasies, and obscenities in explicitly queer combinations. They bear witness to Eisenstein’s philosophical inquires, queer sexual expression and repression, and a great sense of humour. Back in the Soviet Union in 1932, he would continue to draw until his death in 1948, yet under very different circumstances.


The drawings attest to the complex, multi-faceted, and fascinating artistry of Sergei Eisenstein.

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