Nov 10, 2003 - Sale 1984

Sale 1984 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SCHERMAN ZOBE BLACK SEA NEAR EAST LINE
341/2x23 inches.
Condition B+: sharp vertical and horizontal folds; creases in image. Paper.
An Intourist poster promoting travel from the Soviet Union to ports in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt. The image is the Russian answer to Cassandre, with a stylized ship sailing out from behind a strip of film, perhaps also trying to emphasize the Russian film industry and such giants as Sergei Eisenstein. It is curious, and representative of the era in which the poster was printed, that there were cruises between Russia and Palestine!