May 25, 2017 - Sale 2449

Sale 2449 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) YUGOSLAV PEOPLE LED BY TITO / FIGHTING VANGUARD OF DEMOCRATIC EUROPE. 1944.
24 3/4x19 inches, 63x48 1/4 cm.
Condition A: minor restoration at edges; unobtrusive horizontal fold.
Throughout the war, Kauffer aligned his talents with disparate causes, designing posters on behalf of a multitude of organizations. In 1944, for the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans, Kauffer depicts a heroic photomontage of Marshal Tito (Josip Broz) surrounded by arrows, providing a dramatic sense of movement, progress and change. A rare image from World War II. Kauffer 288, Mechanical Age pl. 103.