Mar 09, 2023 - Sale 2629

Sale 2629 - Lot 389

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

NIKOLAI SHEBERSTOV (1917-1978)

[IT IS PLEASANT AND JOYOUS TO KNOW THAT THE BLOOD OF OUR PEOPLE WAS NOT SHED IN VAIN / STALIN.] 1947.


23x32 1/2 inches, 58 1/2x82 1/2 cm. Isskustvo, Moscow.
Condition B: extensive repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins, through text and image; repaired pin holes in corners. Matted and framed.

Sheberstov was known for his book illustrations following the 1917 Revolution as well as ink caricature and portrait drawings. He designed a small number of political propaganda posters in the 1940s.