Aug 03, 2023 - Sale 2643

Sale 2643 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 656
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

VADIM PETROVICH VOLIKOV (1927-1989)

[GLORY TO THE SOVIET MAN - THE FIRST COSMONAUT]. 1961.


42 1/4x26 inches, 107 1/2x66 cm. Izogiz, Moscow.
Condition B+: minor tears, creases and abrasions in margins; stain at upper right margin; scuffing at lower text. Paper.

"In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Soviet space programme achieved a remarkable set of triumphs in the Space Race . . . Volikov's poster depicts the first Soviet cosmonaut [Yuri Gagarin] as a monumental figure flanked by the Vostok rocket inscribed with the symbolic date of 1961' (Cold War p. 37). Cold War p. 36.