Artist: Gao Zhemin
Year: 1959
Publisher: Tianjin Fine Art Publishing House
Size (mm): 528x756
Condition: Good, tears to margins, staining, some loss to lower margin, 4cm tear to left margin, delicate paper
Referencing the Great Leap Forward campaign of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The characters 开门红 mean ‘to get off to a flying start’, so the assertion is that the early part of the campaign - in particular the production of steel referenced in the poster’s imagery - has been successful.