Aug 03, 2023 - Sale 2643

Sale 2643 - Lot 191

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

BORIS EFIMOV (1899-2008)

PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE TRUE ARYAN. 1941.


40x30 inches, 101 3/4x76 1/4 cm. Stafford and Co., Ltd., Nottingham.
Condition B+ / A-: minor abrasions and repaired tears at edges; minor abrasions with slight overpainting at vertical and horizontal folds.
Originally, these were images for a TASS Window, which depicted Hitler, Goering and Goebbels. They "were lampooned . . . for possessing none of the physical attributes that the Nazis assigned to the ideal Aryan. The contrast between text and image pointedly and wittily demonstrates the disjuncture between Nazi ideology and reality . . . particularly striking here is the degree to which Efimov's caricature of Goebbels resembles Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse" (Windows on the War p. 169).