Aug 03, 2011 - Sale 2252

Sale 2252 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DESIGNER UNKNOWN BE A VICTORY FARM VOLUNTEER. 1943.
22x14 inches, 56x35 1/2 cm. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.
Condition B+ / A-: minor tears along sharp vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
Ironically, given that this poster was designed and printed by the U.S. Government just years before the onset of the Cold War, this anonymous image bears an unmistakable resemblance to El Lissitsky's seminal design for the Russische Ausstellung from 1929.