ISAAK YAKOVLEVICH SHERMAN (1907 1951) [THE COURAGEOUS AND STEADFAST FLIERS OF OUR HOMELAND] 1937 40½x27 inches 102¾x68½ cm Izostat

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ISAAK YAKOVLEVICH SHERMAN (1907-1951)

[THE COURAGEOUS AND STEADFAST FLIERS OF OUR HOMELAND!] 1937.

40½x27 inches, 102¾x68½ cm. Izostat, Moscow.
Condition A-: minor repaired tears and creases at edges and along vertical and horizontal folds; pin holes in corners.

Commemorating the world's first nonstop transpolar flight. Pictured (from left to right) are Soviet airmen Valerii Chkalov, Georgii Baidukov and Aleksandr Beliakov. Sherman studied at the Latvian Academy of Fine Arts, then in Vienna and Paris, before returning to Latvia, where he joined an anti-fascist organization of revolutionary writers and artists. He worked for a Moscow publishing house in the late 1930s.

Dictatorship p. 232.

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