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AntikBar salutes Czarist Russia, USSR posters at May 28 auction

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
Military loan, ‘Forward for the Motherland!’ AO Maksimov, 97x67 cm. Very good condition, restored folds, minor loss and tears, backed on japan paper. Start price: £460. AntikBar image
Military loan, ‘Forward for the Motherland!’ AO Maksimov, 97×67 cm. Very good condition, restored folds, minor loss and tears, backed on japan paper. Start price: £460. AntikBar image

 

LONDON – Poster specialist AntikBar‘s next online auction will feature a selection of propaganda and advertising posters from Czarist Russia and the USSR. The auction will take place on Saturday, May 28, starting at 5 p.m. UK time.

Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com.

The majority of the posters in this auction are propaganda posters issued in the Soviet Union, some under Joseph Stalin. There are several examples of rare World War I bond posters as well as rare World War II posters.

 

‘Grow up in peace! I. Toidze, Moscow, 1956, 83.5х56 cm. Edition of 200,000. Good condition, restored folds, tears, backed on japan paper. Start price £260. AntikBar image
‘Grow up in peace! I. Toidze, Moscow, 1956, 83.5х56 cm. Edition of 200,000. Good condition, restored folds, tears, backed on japan paper. Start price £260. AntikBar image

 

Artists include V. Deni, V. Koretsky, D. Moor, Apsit and others. Advertising is represented by Constructivist designs from the NEP (New Economic Policy) era as well as 1950s advertising posters.

 

View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

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