May 10, 2012 - Sale 2278

Sale 2278 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 22,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
GUSTAV G. KLUTSIS (1895-1944) [BUILDING OF SOVIET FARMS AND COLLECTIVE FARMS IS THE BUILDING OF SOCIALISM IN RURAL AREAS.] 1930.
41 1/4x27 1/2 inches, 105x70 cm. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, Moscow.
Condition A-: minor restoration along unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds.
Part of Stalin's first five-year plan was to get the farms to produce more food for the masses to consume. This poster is one of the few in Klutsis' output in which he expands his color palette past red, white and black.