Dimensions: 10.5 x 14.8 cm. (4.1 x 5.8″)

Publisher/Editor: Soviet Publishing House, Moscow

Condition: Postally unused, backside empty. Good condition with some signs of age including surface marks.

Notes: Soviet artist Mikhail Bozhyi (1911 – 1990) – People’s Artist of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1963), a full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1962). In the portraits revealed the inner significance of the person. M. Bozhyi was born September 20, 1911 in Odessa. From 1930 to 1933 he studied at the Moscow Art College (1872 – 1949). In 1936, Mikhail and his wife moved to Odessa. He worked as an animator at the Odessa film studio. He first exhibited his work in 1938 at the Regional Art Exhibition. Bozhyi made his debut with a few portrait sketches. During the Great Patriotic War, the artist, due to the state of health, did not go to the front, and created war posters and satirical drawings. (soviet-art.ru/soviet-artist-mikhail-bozhyi)