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Poster - Stalin

Stalin

  • Object:

    Poster

  • Place of origin:

    Shanghai, China (printed)

  • Date:

    August 1969 (printed)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Colour lithograph on paper

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Lady Heseltine

  • Museum number:

    FE.11-2008

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

  • Image in copyright

This poster reproduces a portrait of Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. Prints with the portrait of Stalin, along with those of Marx, Lenin, Engels, became very popular after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party embraced Marxism-Leninism as its guiding ideology.

The four portraits were hung in Tian'anmen Square on important national celebrations: those of Marx and Engels were on the side of the Museum of Chinese Revolution, and those of Lenin and Stalin on the opposite side. This print was produced in Shanghai in August 1969, at the time of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

Physical description

Propaganda poster with a portrait of Stalin; the title 'Stalin' is at the bottom of the portrait and printing details are on the lower right corner

Place of Origin

Shanghai, China (printed)

Date

August 1969 (printed)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Colour lithograph on paper

Marks and inscriptions

Sidalin (at the bottom) Stalin
Shanghai Renmin meishu chubanshe chuban, 1969 nian 8 yue di 3 ci yinshua (1) shuhao: 4523 (20) Printed by the Shanghai People's Art Publishing House, August 1969, 3rd edition (1), number: 4523 (20)

Dimensions

Height: 103.7 cm, Width: 72.2 cm

Descriptive line

Propaganda poster with portrait of Stalin, colour lithograph on paper, Shanghai, August 1969

Subjects depicted

Stalin, Josef

Categories

Politics; Propaganda

Collection code

EAS

Qr_O166788
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