Poster of V. Koretsky "Native Moscow for new centuries 1147-1947"

The original poster is in good collector's condition. State Publishing House of Fine Arts (IZOGIZ). Artist V. Koretsky, editor E. Pavolotskaya. The output is truncated. The circulation is 50,000. Size 815*565 mm. Guarantee of authenticity. 

 Viktor Borisovich Koretsky (1909-1998) was a Soviet graphic artist. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961). Laureate of two Stalin Prizes (1946, 1949). V. B. Koretsky was born on May 5 (18), 1909 in Kiev. In 1921-1929 he studied at the Moscow School of Fine Arts. In the 1920s and 1930s he created a gallery of portraits of artists. Since 1931 he has been writing posters. Collaborates in the publishing houses "OGIZ-IZOGIZ", "Art". In 1939-1987 he was a member of the editorial board at the publishing house "Reklamfilm". The artist's creative method is based on a combination of full-scale photographs with a pencil and gouache drawing.

During the Great Patriotic War, he created over 40 posters. They are distinguished by the sharpness of their constructions, the emotional intensity of the transfer of the drama of the experiences of Soviet people. Since 1956, he worked in the Agitplakat association. V. B. Koretsky is the author of the first Soviet postage stamp dedicated to the Great Patriotic War "Be a hero!", which was issued on August 12, 1941. She was the artist's first and last postal miniature.Two more of his works became the subjects of postage stamps: the emblem of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, developed by him, is depicted on one of the stamps of the 1956 series issued for the Spartakiad, and the 1940 poster belonging to his pen "Meeting of the Red Army with the population of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus" is presented on one of the stamps of the 1968 series issued in connection with The 50th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR. V. B. Koretsky died on July 4, 1998. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky Cemetery.