Designer: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe collective work (上海人民美术出版社供稿)
1969, April
Forging ahead courageously while following the great leader Chairman Mao!
Jingen weida lingxiu Mao zhuxi fenyong qianjin! (紧跟伟大领袖毛主席奋勇前进!)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 72x106.5 cm.
Call number: BG E13/594 (Landsberger collection)

The super-human Mao, overseeing the immeasurable crowds of his faithful supporters. Below left an ecstatic group carries a dish of mangoes, symbolizing the seven mangoes Mao received from a foreign delegation in 1968, and presented to carefully selected ‘Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams’.