Poster by I. Toidze "Towards communism!", 1960

An original and rather rare large-format poster in very good collectible condition. The State Publishing House of Fine Arts (IZOGIZ). Artist Irakli Toidze, editor A. Sobolev. The circulation is 165,000. Size 890*655 mm. Guarantee of authenticity. 

Irakli Moiseevich Toidze (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 with his father, the famous artist and architect Moses Toidze. In 1930 he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. Toidze's early paintings ("Ilyich's Light Bulb", Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow) played a significant role in the establishment of the Soviet theme in the Georgian everyday genre. The author of the painting "Young Stalin reads the poem of Sh. Rustaveli "A knight in a tiger skin"". His illustrations to the poem "The Knight in Tiger Skin" by Shota Rustaveli (ink, brush, pen, 1937) are distinguished by the heroic and dramatic power of images. Posters created by the artist during the Great Patriotic War have great emotional and invocative power ("Under the banner of Lenin — forward to the West!" (1941), "For the Motherland!" (1943), "Let's liberate Europe from the chains of fascist slavery!" (1945). His poster "Motherland calls!" (1941) became world famous. He has also repeatedly acted 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.