Poster, Sergei Kostin TASS Chain Him, USA, 1941

After Sergei Kostin TASS / Chain Him! vintage poster 1941 screenprint in colors 20 h x 28.25 w in (51 x 72 cm) This poster depicts a disturbing, satirical human-dog hybrid creature resembling Adolf Hitler, marked with a swastika armband and shown chained behind bars.

The image was originally created as TASS Window number 109 by Moscow-trained graphic artist Sergei Nikolaevich Kostin, who studied at the State Free Art Studios and later worked across publishing, exhibition design, and the Bolshoi Theatre. Kostin designed a total of 59 TASS posters between 1941 and 1946. This example is from the edition published by Russian War Relief, once the largest American entity for foreign war relief that was in fact a front organization for the USSR. An example of this poster was featured in the exhibition Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad 1941-1945 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Russian War Relief Inc., USA Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Windows on the War, p. 125 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.