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SALE Central Middlesex Acton Ln Hospital Park Royal INFORMATION Acton Ln Cadogan Tate Coronation Road W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a Park l C Royal iWestern Ave A40 R o Station a 0 d 0 Acton 0 North 4 Cemetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton Horn Lane Station BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & IMPORTANT NOTICE +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE A surcharge of 2% is applicable +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax All sold lots will remain in the when using MasterCard & To bid via the internet Collections room at Bonhams Visa Credit cards and overseas please visit New Bond Street for a period of debit cards. www.bonhams.com not less than 14 calendar days from the sale date 7 June 2017 Payment in Advance PAYMENTS lots not collected by 5.30pm (Telephone to ascertain amount Buyers Wednesday 21 June 2017 will due) by: cash, cheque with +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 be returned to the Department banker’s card, credit or debit card. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax where storage charges may apply. 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Bilibin £8,000 - 12,000 US$10,000 - 15,000 €9,600 - 14,000 Alexander Petrovitch Apsit (pseudonym 'ASPID', meaning 'asp') poster history. Designed for the first anniversary of the October was born into a family of workers from Riga who moved to Saint Revolution, it displays the most important elements of the language of Petersburg in 1894. From 1898 to 1899 he attended the drawing the Revolution: a farmer with a red flag and a scythe, and a blacksmith school there and was a student in the studio of Lev Dmitriev-Kavkazskii with a hammer crushing the emblems of overthrown capitalism, both as guards in front of a field with simple flags. Through the medium of From 1900 to 1910, Apsit was a member of the Moscow artist circle his posters, Alexander Apsit perfected the symbols of the hammer, the Sreda. During this time he worked for various Petersburg magazines sickle and the red star, the images of the Soviet communist era. He is and designed war placards. Following the October Revolution, Apsit regarded as the founder of Soviet poster art. was commissioned by the Soviet government to design revolutionary posters because of his experience with political propaganda. In 1919, Apsit left Moscow and worked as a book illustrator