Poster "It is the duty of every honest citizen to come to the aid of a wounded and sick Red Army soldier!"

The original poster is in very good collectible condition. Size 1000*660 mm. Fragmentary unprofessional restoration, duplicated on white paper. Literary and publishing department of the political administration of R.V.S.R. Guarantee of authenticity. Very rare.

Denis (Denisov) Viktor Nikolaevich - 24.2(8.3) .1893 (Moscow) — 03.08.1946 (Moscow). He was born in Moscow in 1893 in the family of an impoverished nobleman. Had two brothers. The elder brother Mikhail was a satirical poet. He graduated from a noble boarding school.   In the early 1900s he studied with N. Ulyanov. Since 1906, he has participated in exhibitions of the Association of Independents (1910-1917 member of the association) and the Salon of Humorists. 1910. The first drawing was published in the magazine "Alarm Clock". Since 1910, he drew political cartoons and caricatures of cultural figures for Moscow and St. Petersburg magazines - "Alarm Clock", "Ramp and Life", "Sun of Russia", "Satyricon", "Lukomorye", "Ogonek", "Beach", "Magazine of Magazines" and "Machine Gun"; newspapers "Voice Moscow" and others. He signed his drawings: V.Denisov, V.Denis, Visov, V.N., V., Viktorov. 1913-1918. Lived in Petrograd. 1919.  In Kazan and Nizhny Novogorod. He held the position of head of the art section of the Propaganda and Educational Department of the Volga Military Commissariat. He drew posters, cartoons for magazines and newspapers - "Poor Man", "Red Dawns" and "Banner of the Revolution". Organized the first exhibitions of a political poster. Since 1920 in Moscow; took an active part in the publication of one of the first magazines of Soviet political satire "BOV"; participated in the issue of "Windows of satire of GROWTH"; cartoons for the newspapers "Pravda" and "Izvestia", satirical magazines "Crocodile", "Red Pepper" and "Spotlight", the magazine "Soviet screen".
1921. Invited as a permanent employee-cartoonist in Pravda.
1932. Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
1946. He died in Moscow.
He wrote a book of memoirs "My thoughts in a notebook", a number of articles about a political poster. Victor Denis's works are kept in many museums of the former USSR, including the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian State Library (Moscow), the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg).