the year of the centenary of the October revolution, the auction house "Russian enamel" will hold thematic auction of posters on the First World war, the revolutionary events and Civil war in Russia and first years of Soviet power. Auction will be held on March 2, 2017. The majority of lots offered at auction, comes from a private collection in Moscow.

Online-каталог session 1: 100-летию revolutionary events in Russia. Rare posters of the First World war and the Civil war, the revolution and the first years of Soviet power.

lower Open selection prints posters. During the First world war, the splint has become a unique cultural phenomenon that combines classical traditions, folk art and avant-garde. Despite the fact that some researchers call splint a simplified sample of the genre, — his illustrations of military events strength look was more effective than a flyer. These simple but emotionally powerful work asked upbeat and lively tone of the comments about the position of Russia in the early stage of the war.

In August 1914-го artists-авангардисты K. Malevich, A. Lentulov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, D. Burliuk created a group "Today splint", to revive the tradition of battle prints of the nineteenth century. This group has released a series of woodcut posters on military subjects. Part of the prints from this series, collectors will be able to purchase during the auction.

the works of recognized masters of the political poster — Dmitry moor, Mikhail Cheremnykh, Ivan Malyutin — continue the auction catalog. "Petrograd will not give up!", "The whites and the deserter", "the Tsarist regiments and the Red Army," "On the Polish front!" can be attributed to the signs of a new type. They deserves the attention of the artists to what people had to not only explain the past but to help to understand the present, to learn to defend the ideals of the future.

In the first years of Soviet power poster by-прежнему does not cease to be means of propaganda. And as well as posters of the war years, he does not use complex images, urges citizens to action in implementing the public consciousness on one point. Posters of "What have you done for the air fleet?"@the semicolon "to build the fleet — need to know. Read magazines "Vestnik vozdushnogo flota" and "Plane""; "Soviet airship will be a powerful factor in the cause of socialist construction and defense of the USSR" clearly illustrates this point.

Played an invaluable role in the years of wars and revolutions, passing long way of development in ideological and artistic terms, in our time, the poster has lost its campaign component and moved into the category of works of art — one of the most desired collectibles.

the Second part of the auction will be dedicated to International women's day and the theme "Wife, Muse, lover". The auction will be exhibited 36 lots from the collection of the famous bibliophile and journalist Felix Medvedev.

Online-каталог session 2: International women's day. Wife, Muse, lover. Rare books and autographs from the collection of Felix Medvedev.

Among the auctioned autographs presents inscripti N. Kotanski, V. Muromtseva-Буниной, N. Kalievoj, M. Aliger, N. Reshetovskaya, B. Akhmadulina, B. Valley, J. Moritz, A. Banouei, N. Gorlenko, Galina Vishnevskaya, addressed to Leonid Nikulin, J. Smelyakov, F. Medvedev, E. Rhine and others.

With all the lots can be found on producciones exhibition in office of the Auction house "Antiquarium" (Moscow, Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2) to 1 March (daily from 11 to 20 hours).

the Auction will be held on March 2, ibid. Start of trading in 19:00.

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Source: press-релиз the auction house "Russian enamel"