Poster by I. Toidze "Peace!", 1960

The original poster is in excellent collectible condition. State Publishing House of Fine Arts. Artist I. Toidze. Editor G. Shchetkin. The circulation is 170,000. Size 635*915 mm. Guarantee of authenticity. Rare.

Irakli Moiseevich Toidze (Georgian: ? ?? ??????; 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 a poem by Sh. Rustaveli "A knight in a tiger skin"". The heroic and dramatic power of images is distinguished by his illustrations to the poem by Shota Rustaveli "The Knight in Tiger Skin" (ink, brush, pen, 1937). 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 liberate Europe from the chains of fascist slavery!" (1945) have great emotional and appeal power. His poster "Motherland is calling!" (1941) gained worldwide fame. He has 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