Aug 02, 2006 - Sale 2085

Sale 2085 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ALEXANDER M. CAY DURCH ARBEIT ZUM ZIEG. 1918.
38x25 1/4 inches. A. Wohlfeld, Magdeburg.
Condition B+: discoloration in margins. Framed.
A worker and a soldier shake hands against an orange background; lettering in red. After the first World War, when dissatisfied German workers went on strike, Cay produced this poster illustrating that the soldiers' work was done, and now peace was up to the workers. In conveying this message, "he used dark muted colors to emphasize the sobriety of the struggle" (Paret p. 79). Rickards 195.