May 23, 2019 - Sale 2510

Sale 2510 - Lot 38

Unsold
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
MIKHAIL CHEREMNYKH (1890-1962) [THERE HE IS, THE SCOURGE OF CAPITALISM.] Set of 6 ROSTA windows. 1921.
Each 17x14 inches, 43 1/4x35 1/2 cm.
Condition varies, generally B+ / B: tears and tape-repaired tears at edges; creases at edges and in image. Hand-cut stencil with watercolor, on thin paper.
"ROSTA windows were Agitprop posters created by artists and poetslike Cheremnykh, Mayakovsky, Moor, Nuremberg, and Volpin for theRussian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA). They were usually displayed inwindows and often painted with cardboard stencils rather than printed."Glavpolitprosvet No. 204. Rosta p. 6.