Wenxi LIU

20 color portraits of President Mao Zedong dating from the 1960s to 1970s. Liu Wenxi is famous in China for his portraits of Mao, born in 1933 he was the greatest representative of socialist realism. Most of the portraits are accompanied by a caption and the artist's red seal, some captions are very brief: the god of the people, others explain the political or historical situation in which Mao finds himself. The title label is handwritten, and one can easily imagine that this type of collection was printed for propaganda purposes to glorify President Mao. The album contains no publisher's or printer's name.
Accordion album on rigid cardboard composed of 20 panels. Each printed portrait