Feb 07, 2002 - Sale 1924

Sale 1924 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
DEFINDILO! 1944.
38x27 inches.
Condition B+: horizontal folds; repaired tears in image; uneven margins.
Masonic, Jewish and Communist hands are reaching out to grab a piece of Italy, sympathetically presented in the form of a crying child superimposed over a map of Italy. In the final stages of WWII, there was a call to "defend" Italy against the encroaching invaders. "The swastika-like pattern, the use of half-toned photomontage [are] unusually modern for a Fascist poster" (Meehan 17 p. 49).