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WWII RUSSIAN MAQUETTE PAINTING FOR POSTER BY KLIMASHIN - A rare and historically significant World War II Russian Soviet era original maquette by Viktor Semenovich Klimashin, executed in mixed media on paper as a preparatory design for a Soviet propaganda poster. Titled Two Sailors Before a Battleship, the composition captures the resolute spirit and heroic idealization characteristic of Soviet naval imagery during the Great Patriotic War. Signed in pencil on the back. Klimashin, a Soviet graphic artist, master of magazine illustrations, posters, easel watercolors and drawings. Soviet WWII Propaganda Poster Design, Military Paintings, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork. Dimensions 12 X 8 3/4 in. Condition Overall condition good.