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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2014 Mar 15 @ 11:00UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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49" x 67". 1944. TASS Window Poster No. 1114, titled in Cyrillic: "Like Rats from a Sinking Ship." It features beautiful artwork of German rats evacuating a sinking warship by Petr Ashotovich Sarkisian and Dem'ian Bednyi. Hand-stenciled and hand-painted in vivid colors, with printed 3-stanza poem. The Soviet TASS news agency assembled a group of over 90 artists, poets, writers, stencil cutters, and painters to produce inspirational war effort poster designs which hung in the windows of factories, schools, and shop windows, hence their nickname "TASS Windows." Equipment shortages during the war meant stencils were used rather than lithographic printing, which produces a striking effect. In the stencilling process, paint is applied to the paper and sits on the surface, rather than soaking in as it does in printing. The colors remain extremely bright and vivid. The translation of the poem reads:
"The Fascist rats are making plans;
Some rats are already on their way:
Packing their suitcases,
Across the seas and oceans
They hurry to countries
Where they might escape their deaths.
But the vile rats must still answer!
Whether it’s an island, or distant peninsula,
There won't be a place in the world
Where the German rats will not be found.
Nature will have its way:
In vain the rat fools itself,
“I can scurry into the bushes or under a bridge!â€
Wherever the rat hides its head,
His long tail will betray him!"
In remarkably preserved condition given the ephemeral nature of this medium. Folded, with Japanese rice paper reinforement on the verso. Exhibits edge tears, light stains, paper brittle at the edges.
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CA Sales Tax |
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Infinite |
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