Lot 74 - A RUSSIAN SOVIET WWII MILITARY PROPAGANDA POSTER

A soviet military poster designed in 1941 by N. Muratov and Y. Petrov, authors of "Combat Pencil" - a creative association of Leningrad artists who produced propaganda posters during the WWII. The Russian text is quote of a N. Tikhonov poem “Three crosses” read as follows: “…He flew to Leningrad to get the third award, but he made a mistake and the third cross was a wooden cross” with a three painted scenes of bombing Paris and London with caricatured images of Fascists. A main third scene shows failed air attack of Leningrad. Combat Pencil N 41 Paper, color lithography