Sale 2453 - Vintage Posters, August 2, 2017

PYOTR TARASOVICH MALTSEV (1907-1993) 203 ● [SOVIET PEOPLE WANT TO SEE THEIR NAVY EVEN STRONGER AND MORE POWERFUL - STALIN.] 1947. 22 3 / 4 x33 inches, 57 3 / 4 x83 3 / 4 cm. State Art Publishing House, Moscow. Condition B+ / A-: repaired tears at edges; minor creases in image and along unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds. [500/750] DESIGNERS UNKNOWN 204 ● [WORLD WAR II / ITALIAN PROPAGANDA.] Group of 11 posters and broadsides. Circa 1943 & 1944. Sizes vary. Condition varies, generally B+. Paper. List available upon request. [1,000/1,500] DESIGNER UNKNOWN 205 ● HANNO COMUNICATO AL PRESIDENTE ROOSEVELT. Circa 1944. 38x18 1 / 4 inches, 96 1 / 2 x46 1 / 2 cm. Condition A-: partially-replaced lower margin; minor abrasions, repaired tears and restoration in upper margin. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is depicted laughing and standing over black and white photographs of the destruction in Italy separated by dripping red bloodstains. Italian anti-American propaganda ostensibly showed an American audience the results of their warfare against defenseless Italian civilian centers, but in fact this poster was not meant for distribution in America, but only to further enrage Italian public sentiment against the Allies in the dwindling days of World War II. [800/1,200] 204 205