?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
ALFRED F. BURKE (DATES UNKNOWN) SHARE / JEWISH RELIEF CAMPAIGN. Circa 1915. 40x29 3/4 inches, 102x74 cm. Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, Brooklyn. Condition B / B+: repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins and image; restored losses and restoration in margins, some affecting image. An allegorical figure of America offering her bounty, a tray ladden with bread and fruits, to four desperate Jewish refugees dressed in tatters. In the background, the New York skyline, a symbol of the prosperous and secure New World, beneath an optimistic orange and yellow sky (itself reminiscent of a wheat field and thereby a further indication of how much America has to share). One of the finest, and rarest of the World War I Judaic posters, "the relationship between the few words of strong text and the vivid, compelling imagery . . . [and] the economy of both text and image creates a succinct and lasting message." (Magnes p. 34). Magnes cover and p. 35.
