May 09 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2668 -

Sale 2668 - Lot 191

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ALEKSEI IVANOVICH MASHISTOV & ANDREI IVANOVICH PLOTNOV (1916-1997)

[HELLO TO THE SOVIET FOOTBALLERS!] TASS Window. 1946.

70x32 inches, 178x81½ cm.
Condition B: tears, losses and flaking in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; painted and stenciled on multiple sheets, including text sheets at top and bottom. Mounted on paper.

TASS No. 1392, April 10, 1946. "Greetings to Soviet soccer players! / Everyone cries a hearty "Hoorah" to them: / Professors and tractor drivers, / The old and the young. / And even the homeland of soccer / Praised their game in those days, / When they scored goal after goal / Against the teams of England. / Just is the rumble of rumor: / Our nation is everywhere famous / For the strength of its blows / And impregnable gates [i.e., goalposts]" (https://archive.artic.edu/tass/206156).

"In the immediate aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a group of artists and writers in Moscow joined forces under the auspices of the TASS News Agency, to produce large-scale posters [Tass Windows, so called as they were intended to hang in storefront or office building windows for all passers-by to view] - designed to reassure and rouse the Soviet citizenry while manipulating the information it received in the service of envisioning a new world order. Over the 1,418 days of World War II on the Eastern Front . . . the Tass studio produced some 1,240 designs" (Windows on the War p. 13). Devising almost a new image every day, they were each labor-intensive, multi-panel stencils, combining imagery with text.
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