MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir. KORETSKY, Viktor Borisovich.

£5,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

My trebuem mira, no esli tronete... [We demand peace, but if you touch us...] Striking image of the poet inscribing the words of the title in his notebook set against a background of the Soviet flag, the tip of his fountain pen mimicked by a bayonet which is pointing towards a caricatured group of Western leaders marching off a cliff-edge headed by Churchill with a flaming torch, the flames emblazoned with the words Voina protiv SSSR [War against the USSR] and Truman, cradling an A-Bomb. The artist Viktor Borisovich Koretsky (1909-1998) studied at the Moscow School of Illustrative Arts 1921-9, coming under the influence of the Constructivists, his fascination with Heartfield's photomontages establishing his abiding interest in agit-prop poster art. From 1931 till his death in 1998, he continued to work in this genre, his technique based in a combination of photographs with realist gouache and pencil linework.

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