May 19, 2022 - Sale 2605

Sale 2605 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 15,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000

GUSTAV KLUTSIS (1895-1938)

[BUILDING OF SOVIET FARMS AND COLLECTIVE FARMS IS THE BUILDING OF SOCIALISM IN RURAL AREAS]. 1930.


41x28 inches, 104x71 cm. State Publishing House, Moscow.
Condition A-: repaired tears at top edges; small losses at right corners; minor creases at edges. Paper.

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 beyond red, white and black.