May 07, 2007 - Sale 2113

Sale 2113 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) YUGOSLAV PEOPLE / DEATH TO FASCISM / LIBERTY TO THE PEOPLE! Circa 1944
25x19 inches. L.I.P & B.A., New York.
Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal fold; minor restoration in margins and corners.
During the Second World War Kauffer aligned his talents with many disparate causes, designing posters on behalf of a multitude of organizations. Here for the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans, Kauffer depicts a heroic photomontage of Marshall Tito (Josef Broz) surrounded by arrows, providing a dramatic sense of movement, progress and change. A rare, political image from World War II. Mechanical Age pl. 103.