Poster of the Civil War period "RSFSR"

An original and extremely rare large-format poster in very good collectible condition. Publication of the political department of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Baltic. Author V. V. Lebedev. Size 665*485 mm. Guarantee of authenticity. 

Lebedev Vladimir Vasilyevich (14.05.1891 (St. Petersburg) — 21.11.1967 (Leningrad)). Soviet painter and graphic artist. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1966), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1967). In 1912-1914 he studied in St. Petersburg in the workshop of M. D. Bernstein and in the Academy of Sciences, where he taught in 1918-1921. In the 1910s he was an employee of "Satyricon" and "New Satyricon". One of the founders of the Petrograd "Windows of Growth", for which he created more than 500 posters in 1920-1921. In a number of paintings and graphic works of the early 20s. combined techniques of cubism and folk splint. The graphic cycles "Laundresses" (1920-1925), "Revolution Panel" (1922), "NEP" (1925-1927), executed with a clear, sharp stroke, are dominated by everyday and grotesquely satirical motifs. In the painting of the following years (mainly female portraits and nudes), he combined the constructive stability of the composition with a free impressionistic manner of execution (portrait of T. V. Shishmareva, 1935, Russian Museum, Leningrad). He worked a lot in the field of illustration of children's books, created a special system of their artistic composition, his own style of illustration, combining the conventionality of a catchy picture-frame and the immediate vitality of the image (illustrations: to the book by J. R. Kipling "The Elephant", published in 1921; to the book by S. Ya. Marshak's "Circus", published in 1925, "Mr. Twister", published in 1933, "Twelve Months", published in 1943).
In 1942-1945 he participated in the creation of the "Windows of TASS". The 1950s-1960s Illustrated mainly books for children. 1954 Silver medal at the exhibition "The Art of the Book" in Leipzig. 1960 Big silver medal of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (VDNH). 1967 Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. 1967 Died in Leningrad. L.'s works are available in Moscow - in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Russian State Library, the Literary Museum, in St. Petersburg - in the Russian Museum and many other museums and private collections.