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Auction Name Soviet Political and Propaganda Posters - The Sergo Grigorian Collection - bidstart 11/19 Total Sales (GBP) 86,916.75
Auction Date November 30, 2021 - November 30, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 56,050.00
Sale Number #27336 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 80,250.00
Total Lots 169
Sold Lots 52 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 175,550.00
% of Lots Sold 30.77% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 251,050.00
Unsold Lots 117 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 34.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
131 Gustav Gustavovich Klutsis

Glory to the great national poet Pushkin!

1937 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,925.00
132 Gustav Klutsis

Raise higher the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin!

1937 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,925.00
67 Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

WINDOW ROSTA. Polish front. Freedom is deserved only by those who pick up their rifle in defence.

1920 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 7,012.50
80 Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina-Klucis

Comrades-Miners! 104 x 71.2cm. (40 15/16 x 28 1/16in).

1933 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,100.00
35 Nikolai Borisovich Terpsikhorov

Literate, Teach the Illiterate!

1930 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,187.50
31

Literacy - way to communism.

1920 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,550.00
113 K.S. Eliseev K.S.

Victorious march of 5years will not be stopped by imperialists!

1930 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,550.00
114 V.N. Deni

The proletarians! Disrupt the preparation of the imperialists for war!

1930 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,550.00
167 Nikolai Zhukov

LENINGRAD

printed by Vneshtogrizdat pub. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,040.00
101

Every river starts as a stream, but alcoholism starts with a glass. .

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,912.50
82 N.M. MIKHAILOVA

Don't let greedy priests and kulaks into our Kolhoz!

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,785.00
2

We reign over you, we rule you, we fool you, we shoot at you....

1901 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,657.50
4 Yakov Ruklevsky

Lenin in October.

1937 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,657.50
9

5.5% war loan

1916 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,530.00
135 N.N. Zhukov

Peace to the people!

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,530.00
33 Nikolai Kogout

From darkness to light. From the battle to the book. From sorrow to happiness.

1921 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,402.50
111 A. Jussupoff

Tatizdat-Kazan

1930 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,402.50
138 Irakliy Moisevich Toidze

"...the party is unbeatable if it knows where to go and is not afraid of the difficulties". (I. Stalin)

1940 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,402.50
157 Karpovsky N.P.

Long live the Komsomol generation! Stalin.1948

1948 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,402.50
102 N. S. Trishin

Throw cigarette butts in the bin.

1930 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,275.00
127 G. K. Shubina

Let's give the Red Army the best superstars of the Stakhanovites.

1936 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,275.00
160 B.A. Reshetnikov

Death to flies.

1957 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,275.00
147 Victor Nikolaevich

Fascist vulture has found that there are no lambs here!

1944 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,211.25
161 K.K. Ivanov

Everything on the shoulder is a giant, a people who won power and freedom!

1959 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,211.25
107

Black Sea state steamship line Odessa- Near East.

GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,083.75
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