[Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh Unification Poster] No. 52

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Dogma Gallery. Very good. Vividly colored poster on fabric (21" x 16" printed area), reproduced by the Dogma Gallery, is captioned in Vietnamese and English, "Uncle and We Still Operate Together," (or more literally from Uncle Ho's point of view, stating "I will still march together with you" or "Together We March"). The artwork (signed with the initials D.H.T.) features Ho Chi Minh with a cloud-like batallion of soldiers floating in the bright red background.This particular poster was featured in the Faith section of "Dogma - Morale from the Ministry," a book about the collection of Vietnam-based businessman Dominic Scriven, who created an archive of more than a thousand pieces of Vietnamese propaganda art dating from 1945-1985. In a 2023 interview, Scriven says the collection era essentially is "covering really the birth of modern Vietnam, which is combat art and political art and philately and photography and stuff, so it’s very cool. ... [T]he Vietnamese (style) was real-life shit. Pull the people together, mobilise them, that type of thing. It’s very real. And an important part of the country’s history."These reproductions were sold at the Gallery's souvenir shop in Ho Chi Minh City, which featured a large-scale version of this particular poster on its wall.The poster has a minor wrinkle in the upper left corner, and light scuff marks in the bottom left unprinted margin.