I. Toidze's poster "For our Soviet Motherland", 1948

Original and quite rare poster in very good collector's condition. The circulation of 90,000. Size 520*750 mm. Author And. Toidze. Guarantee of authenticity.

Irakli Moiseevich Toidze (cargo. (1902-1985) was a Georgian Soviet painter and graphic artist. People's artist of the Georgian SSR (1980). Honored artist of the RSFSR (1951). Winner of four Stalin prizes (1941, 1948, 1949, 1951). Born on March 14 (27), 1902 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia). He studied under his father, the famous artist and architect Moisei Toidze. In 1930, he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of arts. Toidze's early paintings (Ilich's light Bulb, Museum of Oriental art, Moscow) played a significant role in establishing the Soviet theme in the Georgian domestic genre. The author of the painting " Young Stalin reads the poem by sh. Rustaveli "knight in tiger skin"". His illustrations for Shota Rustaveli's poem "the knight in the tiger's skin" (ink, brush, pen, 1937) are distinguished by the heroic and dramatic power of images. Posters created by the artist during the great Patriotic war ("under the banner of Lenin — forward to the West!" (1941), "For the Motherland!" (1943), "let's Free Europe from the chains of fascist slavery!" (1945) have great emotional and appeal power. His poster "Motherland calls!" (1941) became world-famous. He also worked as a book Illustrator (illustrations for the books "History of Georgia" (oil, paper, 1950) and "anthology of Georgian poetry" (1948)). He died on April 1, 1985 in Moscow