Lot 528: PAKHOMOV, ALEXEI 1900-1973 Original Poster Designs The Revolution for Children and a Lithographic Poster

Est: £50,000 GBP - £70,000 GBPSold:

MacDougall'sLondon, United KingdomJune 11, 2010

Item Overview

Description

PAKHOMOV, ALEXEI 1900-1973 Original Poster Designs The Revolution for Children and a Lithographic Poster six works, 1930 One gouache, watercolour and pencil on cardboard, another pencil on paper, the others watercolour and pencil on paper, accompanied by a lithograph on paper, the largest measuring 72 by 53 cm. and the smallest 19 by 21.5 cm.
Provenance: Acquired from E. Pakhomova, the wife of the artist.
Private collection, Europe.

The original design for the poster The Revolution for Children by theoutstanding Leningrad painter and graphic artist AlexeiPakhomov presented here for auction is not only a work of historical interest, but a superb example of graphic design from themost interesting period of Soviet propaganda art. During the second half of the 1920s and early 1930s, Pakhomov was a memberof the Krug society, whose brief existence is inextricably linkedwith the triumphal success of experimental figurative devicescharacteristic of the works that would become classics of earlySoviet art.

In Soviet Russia, the patriotic education of children was considered equally important as the practical training of adult soldiers,and consisted of constant systematic propaganda in which visualimagery played a very important role. Colourful posters, books,and other educational children's literature were published in largenumbers and were illustrated by some of the best artists of theperiod, such as Vladimir Lebedev, Alexander Deineka, AlexanderSamokhvalov. Alexei Pakhomov's work was a major contributionto this propaganda programme.

The lithographic poster The Revolution for Children was printed atthe Yevgenia Sokolova press in Leningrad in the autumn of1930. The original poster design is accompanied by a pencildrawing and three studies in watercolour, which allow us to tracethe development of the artist's ideas, as well as the finished lithographic poster. It should be noted that one of the two knownoriginal studies for the poster The Revolution for Children was included in the exhibition Masters of Soviet Art, organised in 1930 atthe Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Artist or Maker

Aleksej Fedorovic Pachomov

Auction Details

Russian Art Auction - Russian Works on Paper

MacDougall's

June 11, 2010, 11:00 AM GMT

30A Charles II Street, London, LDN, SW1Y 4AE, UK

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