May 07, 2015 - Sale 2382

Sale 2382 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BOB (B. BOGOLYUBOV, DATES UNKNOWN) [DOBROLET.] Circa 1930.
41 3/4x28 1/4 inches, 106x71 3/4 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, some affecting image; creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image; vertical and horizontal folds; restored loss in lower left corner.
The text reads "Shame on you, your name is still out of the Dobrolet shareholders' list! The whole country watches it." The device of the globe surrounded by leaflets and text above it have been "borrowed" from a 1923 poster for the airline company by Alexander Rodchenko. Aeroflot p. 19.