The Transsiberian Express Intourist Moscow Hotel Metropol Travel Poster
- 1930
- P. Merinov
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27 x 39 inches ~ (68 x 99 cm)$11,500
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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The Transsiberian Express Intourist Moscow Hotel Metropol - Represented by all main travel bureaus of the world.
Extremely rare and early Intourist poster promoting the high speed and “Shortest Way” between Europe and Far East, reducing travel time by ships from 36 days to 12 days by rail.
Intourist, the Soviet State Travel agency State Joint Stock Company for Foreign Tourists, was created in April 1929, just six months prior to the stock market crash that plunged the Western world into the Great Depression.
As Socialist Realism was gradually taking over and the era of the avant-garde was coming to an end, there were no official guidelines on the Intourist style, and in the first two or three years it was still up to the artists and the Committee to decide how to address the discriminating Western audience (Intourist p. 17). The impulse of the avant-garde . . . is still evident in the early publications of Intourist artists, who struggled to identify a vivid and contemporary visual language appropriate for export without being too inappropriate for the country it was imported from. The influence of Rodchenko and Constructivist stylistic devices is evident [in some early Intourist posters], while Lissitsky appears again in the image of the 'Trans-Siberian Express' . . . [these] early posters created an adventurous and attractive reality, overall charged with energy and enthusiasm (Intourist p. 18). The Trans-Siberian railway cut the travel time between Europe and the Far East by more than half. A trip that would take as long as 36 days by steamship could be accomplished in 12 days by rail.. Intourist pl. 2.
