V. Ivanov's poster "Be always ahead, youth!", 1961

The original poster is in excellent collectible condition. State Publishing House of Fine Arts. Artist V. Ivanov. Editor A. Soboleva. The circulation is 65,000. Size 650*945 mm. Guarantee of authenticity. Rare.

Viktor Semyonovich Ivanov (1909-1968) was 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). 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.

Victor 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 Leningrad Institute of Cinema 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. Chervyakova (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 has lived and worked in Moscow, 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 more quickly, 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, "Signalman" No. 751, No. 798). The best military posters of Ivanov are distinguished by journalistic passion, 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! Revenge 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 fascists – child murderers!" (1944), Victor Ivanov's war posters are close to the works of his colleague and friend, another wonderful artist Alexey 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 thanks to greater conciseness, including the color system, they still remain posters.

The most famous military posters: "For the Motherland, for honor, for freedom!" (1941), "The Motherland ordered us to study military affairs!" (1941), "Let's multiply our glory", "Beat, if, drive, take it in full!", "Go ahead! To the West!", "Long live the united front of freedom-loving peoples against the fascist invaders!", "Comrades of the Red Army and Red Navy, commanders and political workers, partisans and partisans! The whole world is looking at you as a force capable of destroying the predatory hordes of German invaders" (all -1942), "We drink the water of our native Dnieper, we will drink from the Rod, the Neman and the Bug!" (1943), "You brought us back to life!" (1943), "Thanks to the frontline collective farms!" (1944), "Collective farmers! Restoration of roads and bridges is our duty to the motherland!" (1944), "We will plant the victory banner over Berlin!", "So it will be!", "The enemy is treacherous – be on the alert!", "Days and nights we are waiting for you, fighter!", "Forward to complete victory", "Glory to the heroic victorious army!", "Liberated Soviet people! You are freed from the oppression of fascist bondage – return to your Homeland soon!", "Thank you to Stalin!", "We have won!"(all -1945), "They have regained their happiness!" (1946).

In the post-war years, he continued to work successfully as a poster artist, creating posters on topics of politics, industry and sports. His posters were published in the publishing houses IZOGIZ, "Soviet Artist" and "Art".