May 10, 2012 - Sale 2278

Sale 2278 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
VL. POLKOVNIKOV (DATES UNKNOWN) [DEATH TO FACISM.] 1930.
41x27 1/2 inches, 104x70 cm.
Condition A / A-: minor restoration in top margin; printer's creases in image.
An early and rare Russian anti-Fascism poster, that has faceless Russian troops marching against a swastika covering the American flag, the Japanese flag and the Italian Fasces. Printed almost a decade before the outbreak of World War II, the geo-political implications of this image are eerily prescient.