Milan Grygar’s fine surreal movie poster artwork for ’60s adaptation of Ivan Turgenev.

• title: A Nest of Gentry | Dvoryanskoe gnezdo | Šlechtické hnízdo | Soviet Union, 1969
• director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
• with: Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyszkiewicz
• writer: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (novel)

poster designer: Milan Grygar, 1969

Poster is in A3 format (40.1 x 29 cm). Folded in the middle. Slight crease and some cracks on edges. Bottom corner missing. Tape visible in corners. Bit of pen writing and dried glue remains at the back (front too). Large tear in top left. Several spots across. Fair condition (NOT PHOTOGRAPHED, PLEASE ASK IF YOU WISH TO SEE A PHOTO).

Movie posters in our collection were promotional materials. Posters used on display in the cinemas across the former Czechoslovakia. They bear signs of their age.

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Milan Grygar is Czechoslovak audiovisual artist, painter and musician. His main passion re-occurring throughout his life was the relationship between the drawing and the sound. Milan Grygar was very active graphic artist with over hundred movie posters and numerous number of book illustrations. Influenced by the post war neo Avant-garde tendencies and music, his movie poster designs are a pride of every collection.

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