El Lissitzky - Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge - 1950s

"Overthrow the whites with the red wedge" (in Russian: Клином красным бей белых!, Klinom krasnym bey belykh!) is a Bolshevik propaganda lithographic manifesto from 1919 by El Lissitzky. Note: this is a much rarer later edition from the 1950s, printed with antique typesetting techniques. The first edition of this manifesto sold for over €27,000. Today OCR: a very rare specimen, produced with traditional offset printing on paper of the era. It is not a modern digital reproduction, a photocopy, or an inkjet print, but a genuine typographic print obtained through matrices and mechanical color layers. This analog technique gives the image a particular rendering: solid color fields, deep blacks, intense red, and light characteristics typical of period printing. The paper also shows the natural patina and aging developed over more than seventy years. Historical offset editions like this are increasingly difficult to obtain and are clearly more interesting and collectible than common contemporary digital reprints. Manifesto with a strong decorative impact, ideal for collectors of Russian avant-garde, Constructivism, Bauhaus, abstract art, and 20th-century political graphics. Conditions as in the photographs, with normal signs of age, small creases and marginal imperfections consistent with the age and nature of the paper. In the manifesto, the intrusive red wedge symbolizes the Bolsheviks, who penetrate and defeat their opponents, the White movement, during the Russian Civil War. Sconfiggi i bianchi con il cuneo rosso Sconfiggi i bianchi con il cuneo rosso Artist: El Lissitzky Subject: Defeat of the White movement The image gained popularity in the West after Lissitzky’s emigration to Germany in 1921. It is considered the symbol of the Russian Civil War in Western publications and is often used on album covers and in advertising. It is also used by political groups and left-wing activists in Europe, together with the red antifascist triangle, a symbol recovered from the persecution of leftist political groups by Nazi Germany in Germany and in the European territories occupied by the Germans.

Estimate:£333.22

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