May 10, 2012 - Sale 2278

Sale 2278 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN [DISTRIBUTION OF INVESTMENTS IN FIXED ASSESTS BY SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY.] 1930.
20 1/4x27 3/4 inches, 51 1/2x70 1/2 cm. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, Moscow.
Condition A.
With no indication of the capitalist irony of how investment into infrastructure will benefit a Communist society, this poster lays out the plan for just such investments. It is simple and effective, using photographs to illustrate the areas of society that will be improved by the "planned investments;" such as giant factories, powerful transport, big public agriculture and cultural housing.