May 10, 2012 - Sale 2278

Sale 2278 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DESIGNER UNKNOWN [HANDS OFF!!!] 1929.
27 3/4x42 1/4 inches, 70 1/2x107 cm. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, Moscow.
Condition B+: restored loss in upper left corner; restoration at edges; vertical and horizontal folds.
A classic Russian political cartoon poster, showing a proud Russian soldier standing up against a violent Fascist trying to attack the thriving metropolises, military installations and productive factories of the Soviet union. The poem on the poster is by Demian Bedny.