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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN [PEASANT!] Circa 1935. 28 1/4x41 7/8 inches. Motser, Moscow Condition B+: restored losses, repaired tears and creases in margins and image. Before the usage of photomontage as the primary medium for propaganda, Russian posters employed a split-image system, in which one side of the poster showed a dramatically different image than the other side. It was used again, here, in the l930s to show the difference in life between the bucolic Soviet countryside and the "dangers" [to good communist people] of the big cities. On one half of the image peaceful peasants are enjoying all of the benefits of the Socialist State, not to mention beautiful weather and healthy comradeship. On the other half, in the big city, beneath belching smokestacks, we see priests, soldiers and capitalists (including a character with a swastika on his hat) torturing and slaughtering people. Stylistically reminiscent of a woodblock print, the lithograph, while anonymous, is accomplished in an unexpected, Expressionist style.
![DESIGNER UNKNOWN [PEASANT!] Circa 1935. 28x41 inches. Motser, Moscow](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/full//587\584587.jpg)
