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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DESIGNER UNKNOWN SEE USSR. 1931. 40 1/4x27 1/4 inches, 102x69 cm. Condition B+ / B: restoration in corners; repaired tears in margins; creases in image. The glory days of avant-garde design, constructivism and photomontage had disappeared by the mid 1930s in the Soviet Union. Stalin preferred the smiling peasant form of Socialist Realism, and the conservative artists within the government propaganda agencies were only too happy to oblige. As an exception, travel posters that were targeted to a public outside the country were designed with more flair. This appealing study in contrasts implies the vastness of the Soviet Union, incorporating day and night, winter and summer and nature and architecture into the image. Voyage p. 126.
