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BORIS EFIMOV (1899-2008) WHAT IS AN "ARYAN"? / HE IS STREAMLINED AS GOERING. 1941. 27 3/4x19 inches, 70 1/2x48 1/4 cm. Russian War Relief Inc. Condition B+: minor restoration along losses and repaired tears at edges; creases and restoration in margins and image and along horizontal folds. Silkscreen. Originally, these were images for the TASS Window 22, 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" (see next lot) (Windows on the War p. 169). Windows on the War p. 117, 121 and 169 (all var), Rhodes p. 227.
