KETO AND KOTE

Original 1956 Polish 23 inch x 33 inch Poster for the 1948 Vakhtang Tabliashvili & Shalva Gedevanishvili Russian Musical Comedy KETO AND KOTE (QETO DA KOTE), based on the opera by Victor Dolidze and the play by Avqsenti Tsagareli and starring Medea Djaparidze, Bato Kraveishvili, Tamari Chavchavadze and Petre Amiranashvili.

The rich merchant of Tiflis dreams of intermarrying with the aristocracy (in order to be known as an aristocrat himself) and is going to give his beautiful daughter Keto (Djaparidze) to the old, vicious and ruined prince Levan Palavandishvili (Amiranashvili). The girl is desperate, because she loves the young poet Kote (Kraveishvili), the nephew of the prince, who, in the guise of a teacher, goes to see her.

With the help of friends and matchmaker Khanuma (Chavchavadze), the young lovers manage to outwit the old people and achieve their own happiness.

Poster art by Lucjan Jagodzinski (1897 – 1971). Lucjan Jagodzinski was educated at the A. Muraszko School of Drawing and Painting in Kiev (1914-16), at the Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1916-17) and at the Krzyzanowski School in Warsaw (1921-23). He also studied in Paris with Olga Boznanska (1928-29). He worked in easel painting and the graphic arts.

The poster is in very good folded condition. There are small pieces out of the top corners.