Feb 08, 2011 - Sale 2236

Sale 2236 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN AVEC CE DE GAULLE LÀ. Circa 1941.
46 1/2x31 inches, 118x79 cm.
Condition B+: minor restored losses and restoration along top edge; vertical and horizontal folds.
A right wing French attack against de Gaulle and his failed attempt with Winston Churchill and the British navy to seize Dakar. The image of Churchill and a sterotypically depicted Jewish man fishing with a lure fashioned in the likeness of Charles de Gaulle, is being met by a French sailor chastizing them, "with this you will not catch anything."