VLKSM KOMSOMOL CPSU LENIN - 1977 SOVIET RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKS POSTER by VIKTOROV

Description: Original slogan on the poster: КПСС ВЛКСМ ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ ЛЕНИНСКИЙ КОМСОМОЛ - НАДЕЖНЫЙ ПОМОЩНИК И БОЕВОЙ РЕЗЕРВ КОММУНИСТИЧЕСКОЙ ПАРТИИ, ПЕРЕДОВОЙ ОТРЯД МОЛОДЫХ СТРОИТЕЛЕЙ КОММУНИЗМА! Literally English translation: CPSUVLKSM LONG LIVE LENINISKY KOMSOMOL - THE RELIABLE ASSISTANT AND MILITARY RESERVE OF COMMUNIST PARTY, THE VANGUARD OF YOUNG BUILDERS OF COMMUNISM! POSTER ARTIST: VIKTOROV VALENTIN PETROVICH PRINT YEAR: 1977 SUBJECT: VLKSM, KOMSOMOL, CPSU LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN PRINT RUN: 265.000 PUBLISHED BY: "PLAKAT", MOSCOW SIZE: IN: 23 ⁵/₈ x 35 ½ = CM: 60 x 90 CONDITION: FLAT, GOOD The poster is in a good shape, there is one heavy cross fold and minor crease at the lower right corner - there was made light pre-restoration it looks really fabulous now. Before your bid please consider the poster condition from attached pictures and text description, if you still need more information please feel free to require additional pictures or video, I will provide it for you with a big pleasure. Shipping rolled in a hard plastic tube. This artwork was created by VIKTOROV VALENTIN PETROVICH (1927-1987) Highly famous Soviet poster artist, illustrator, designer and exhibition designer. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. Valentin Viktorov was born in Samara. Studied at the Moscow State Technical School of Fine Arts in memory of the 1905 revolution (1927–1931). Since the late 1920s - a member of the Youth Organization of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (OMAHRR). Member of the Great Patriotic War. He mainly worked in the genre of political posters. One of the artist's first posters is dedicated to road safety (1935; "Stop. Be careful on the street!"), In 1947 he executed the poster "May 9 - the holiday of victory over Germany." In the postwar years he collaborated with the publishing houses "Art", "Fine Art", "Planet". He designed and illustrated magazines: "Knowledge is Power", "Ogonyok", "Soviet Warrior", "Wings of the Motherland", "Science and Life" and others. Since 1954 he worked at the All-Union Chamber of Commerce - the leading artist of Soviet exhibitions abroad - in Vienna, Damascus, Zagreb, Izmir, Ljubljana, Milan, Oklahoma (USA), Shanghai. From the 1950s he collaborated with the IZOGIZ publishing house, and since 1974 with the Plakat publishing house. Made agricultural and political posters. Many of the artist's late posters from the 70s and 80s are distinguished by oversimplification, laconism and sketchiness. The key themes that Valentin Petrovich Viktorov worked on - the themes of aviation and space exploration, the artist made many posters, which later became well-known and valued collectors. www.facebook.com/sovietartposters Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

Price: 175 USD

Location: Clarksburg, Maryland

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