1958. cca. 70 x 50 cm. Vintage poster. Paper, offset. Decorative sport poster from the 1950s, with a very elegant drawing. The poster promotes a boxing match. It is signed as 'Szigeti'. The text hasn't been printed on the poster. The 1950's was a golden age of boxing in Hungary, because it was the time when Laszlo Papp, a middleweigh boxing champion turned out to be world famous. László Papp (March 25, 1926 – October 16, 2003) was a Hungarian boxer, born in Budapest. A southpaw, he won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. However, Hungary was a Communist country at the time and professional boxing was not permitted, so Papp had to go to Vienna to start his professional career. In 1964, after Papp had already signed up for the world championship title bout, Hungary's Communist leadership brought his professional career to an end by denying him an exit visa. The reason for this was that professional boxing was not permitted in Communist Hungary and the government resented Papp's successful by-passing of the restriction by staging his fights abroad. The boxer represented on this poster is most likely not him, because Papp was absolutely recognizable from his mustache.

Fine, fold marks, tears along the border.