PROLETARIAT OF ALL COUNTRIES UNITE -1958 VINTAGE SOVIET RUSSIAN COMMUNIST POSTER

$ 132.0

Original/Licensed Reprint: Original Item Width: 25 in Item Height: 39 in Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work Personalize: No Features: Signed, 1st Edition, Limited Edition Featured Person/Artist: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, KARL MARX, Friedrich Engels, Yuriy Andropov Subject: Advertising, Art, History, Patriotic, Social History, Asia, Motivational, Olympic Games Handmade: No Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No Height (Inches): 39 Color: Multi-Color Character: Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Yuriy Andropov, Peace Custom Bundle: No Type: Poster Material: Paper Signed: No Style: Vintage, Socialist Realism, Socrealism, Affichiste, Art Deco, Avant-garde, Constructivism, Realism, Russian Date of Creation: 1950-1960 Theme: Advertising, Agriculture, Art, History, Holidays, Patriotic, Politics, Social History, Sports Year of Production: 1958 Country/Region of Manufacture: Ukraine Item Length: 39 in Framing: Unframed Width (Inches): 25 Culture: USSR Listed By: Dealer or Reseller Artist: LAPSHYN V. Size: Large Region of Origin: Ukraine

Description

Original slogan on the poster: ПРОЛЕТАРИЙ ВСЕХ СТРАН - СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ! 1 МАЯ - ДЕНЬ МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ СОЛИДАРНОСТИ ТРУДЯЩИХСЯ. Literally English translation: PROLETARIAT OF ALL COUNTRIES - GET UNITED! 1ST OF MAY - WORKING INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY DAY. POSTER ARTIST: LAPSHYN V. PRINT YEAR: 1958 SUBJECT: HOLIDAY OF 1ST MAY / LABOR DAY LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN PRINT RUN: 225.000 PUBLISHED BY: "IZOGIZ", MOSCOW SIZE: IN: 26 ³/₈ x 40 ½ = CM: 67 x 103 CONDITION: FROM FAIR TO GOOD, CREASES, TEARS Stunning Soviet poster glorifying the 1st of May or Labor Day also known as International Workers' Day - is a May 1st celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement. It became an important official holiday of the Soviet Union, celebrated with elaborate popular parade in the center of the major cities. The biggest celebration was traditionally organized in Red Square, where the General Secretary of the CPSU and other party and government leaders stood atop Lenin's Mausoleum and waved to the crowds. www.facebook.com/sovietartposters Listing and template services provided by inkFrog