"*PAKHOMOV, ALEXEI (1900-1973) Original Poster Designs The Revolution for Children and a Lithographic Poster six works, 1930 One gouache, watercolour and pencil on cardboard, another pencil on paper, the others watercolour and pencil on paper, accompanied by a lithograph on paper, the largest measuring 72 by 53 cm. and the smallest 19 by 21.5 cm. Provenance: Acquired from E. Pakhomova, the wife of the artist. Private collection, Europe. The original design for the poster The Revolution for Children by the outstanding Leningrad painter and graphic artist Alexei Pakhomov presented here for auction is not only a work of historical interest, but a superb example of graphic design from the most interesting period of Soviet propaganda art. During the second half of the 1920s and early 1930s, Pakhomov was a member of the Krug society, whose brief existence is inextricably linked with the triumphal success of experimental figurative devices characteristic of the works that would become classics of early Soviet art. In Soviet Russia, the patriotic education of children was considered equally important as the practical training of adult soldiers, and consisted of constant systematic propaganda in which visual imagery played a very important role. Colourful posters, books, and other educational children's literature were published in large numbers and were illustrated by some of the best artists of the period, such as Vladimir Lebedev, Alexander Deineka, Alexander Samokhvalov. Alexei Pakhomov's work was a major contribution to this propaganda programme. The lithographic poster The Revolution for Children was printed at the Yevgenia Sokolova press in Leningrad in the autumn of 1930. The original poster design is accompanied by a pencil drawing and three studies in watercolour, which allow us to trace the development of the artist's ideas, as well as the finished lithographic poster. It should be noted that one of the two known original studies for the poster The Revolution for Children was included in the exhibition Masters of Soviet Art, organised in 1930 at ""the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam."""""""