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Offered here is a selection of posters focusing on Soviet advertising and industry. The designers include Dmitri Moor, Stenberg Brothers, Sophie Lissitzky-Kuppers, Nikolai Troshin, Elizaveta Ignatovich as well as an unknown designer.
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| | Poster design by Dmitri Moor-I Am an Atheist. 1924. Subscription poster for the journal, Atheist at the Workbench (Bezbozhnik u stanka). Vintage backing stabilized for handling. Minor restoration. See, Anikst, M., Soviet Commercial Design of the Twenties. Abbeville Press, 1987, p. 97, fig. 186; Moskva izdatel'skaya v plakate, Kontakt Kultura, 2003, p. 13, plate 5. Tirage, 5,000. 42 1/8 x 27 7/8". | | Poster design by Stenberg Brothers-Poster in the Service of the Five-Year Plan. 1932. Announcement for the landmark poster exhibition "Poster in the Service of the Five-Year Plan" (First All-Union Poster Exhibition). The exhibition opened in early April 1932 in Moscow in the premises of the State Tretyakov Gallery. 206 artists participated and 410 posters were exhibited. A catalogue was prepared for printing, but was not published. Poster works by Gitsevich, Guminer, Deni, Dlugach, Dolgorukov, Elkin, Zernova, E. Ignatovich, Klutsis, Knoblock, Koretsky, Kukryniksky, Kulagina, Moor, Pinus, Senkin and Stenberg Bros. among many others were exhibited. Backed on linen. See, Exhibitions of Soviet Fine Arts-Directory Vol. 1 1917-1932. Soviet Artist, 1965, pp. 405-406; Russian Constructivist Posters. Flammarion, 1992, plate 121; Soviet Advertising Poster 1917-1932. Soviet Artist. 1972, p. 117. Tirage, 2,000. 41 3/4 x 29 3/4". | | Poster design by Sophie Lissitzky-Kuppers and Nikolai Troshin-I Have to Give More Cast Iron... 1942. The last known work by the artist Sophie Lissitzky-Kuppers. After the death of her husband, El Lissitzky, in 1941, Sophie Lissitzky-Kuppers was exiled to Novosibirsk because of her German origin. Not backed with miscut at upper margin and flat folds. Tirage, 30,000. 36 x 24 1/2". | | Poster design by Elizaveta Ignatovich-The Struggle for the Polytechnical School is the Struggle for the Five-Year Plan. 1931. Backed on Japan. See, Andrews and Kalinovska, Art into Life. Henry Art Gallery, 1990, p. 166. Tirage, 20,000. 20 x 28". | | Poster design by unknown artist-Mospoligraf Pencils. ca. 1928. Advertisement poster for pencils sold by Mospoligraf, the state publishing trust. Not backed with flat folds and margin nicks. See, Russkii reklamii plakat. Kontakt Kultura, 2001, plate 109. Tirage, 5,000. 41 1/2 x 29 1/8". | | We have a large inventory of important 1920s-30s Russian/Soviet posters and graphic newspapers. Please contact us for details. | | | | |
