Poster "Whoever enters us with a sword will die by the sword!", 1942

An original and rather rare Soviet poster from the period of the Great Patriotic War in excellent condition. Artists V. Ivanov and O. Burova, editor P. Piskunov. 3rd printing house "Red Proletarian" of the RSFSR Ogiz trust "Polygraph Book". The circulation is 60,000. Size 870*565 mm. Guarantee of authenticity.

Viktor Semyonovich Ivanov is an outstanding Soviet poster artist, painter, and film artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1955). Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1958). He was awarded State Prizes of the USSR (1946, 1949). He is best known as a master of political posters. During his life, he created more than 300 works on various topics, many of which were included in the golden fund of the Soviet poster. He studied at the Moscow Art School (1926), the Moscow Art College in Memory of 1905 (1926-1929) with E. N. Yakub, at the studio of D. N. Kardovsky in Moscow (1928-1929), in 1933 he graduated from the film department of the Leningrad Institute with a degree in production designer, studied with M. P. Bobyshov, B. V. Dubrovsky-Eshke. In the 1930s, the artist Viktor Ivanov collaborated with Lenfilm. Starting in 1933, he designed films at Mosfilm and Mezhrabpomfilm studios: "Honor" by E. V. Chervyakov (1938), "Lenin in 1918" by M. I. Romm (1939, together with Dubrovsky-Eshke), "The Guy from the Taiga" by O. I. Preobrazhenskaya, I. K. Pravova (1941), "The Road of Immortality" (1957). Since the mid-1930s he lived and worked in Moscow, and since 1934 he has participated in many major exhibitions. He was mainly engaged in propaganda, political and social posters. In the pre-war years, he made about two dozen posters.

During the war, he executed more than a hundred posters, several works in collaboration with his wife, the artist Olga Burova. In 1941-1943, he participated in the release of the famous defense posters "Windows of TASS" ("So that the enemies tremble sooner, so that lead blows grow" No. 522, "All forces to defeat the enemy" No. 529, No. 558, "Multiply our glory" No. 582, No. 622, "Sailors will not fail" No. 630, "Salute to Heroes" No. 699, "Restoration Front No. 720, "Death to the German occupiers! No. 729, "Signaler" No. 751, No. 798). Ivanov's best military posters are distinguished by their journalistic passion and specific disclosure of the topic. With their piercing emotionality, sharp characters of the characters, and sometimes tragic perception of reality, his posters do not leave the viewer indifferent: "Every frontier is decisive!" (1942), "Death to child murderers!" (1942; co-authored with O. K. Burova), "All hope for you, Red Warrior!", "Revenge for Woe to the people!", "Every bullet is in a German!", "A fighter of the Red Army! Take revenge on the fiends for the torments of a comrade!" (all -1943), "The hour of reckoning with the Germans for all their atrocities is near! Death to the child–killing fascists!" (1944), Victor Ivanov's war posters are close to the works of his colleague and friend, another wonderful artist Alexei Kokorekin. The works of these outstanding poster artists are technically solved by close pictorial means. Ivanov's posters rather resemble genre paintings of wartime, but due to their greater conciseness, including the color system, they still remain posters.