Feb 29, 2024 - Sale 2660

Sale 2660 - Lot 288

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954)

YUGOSLAV PEOPLE LED BY TITO / FIGHTING VANGUARD OF DEMOCRATIC EUROPE. 1944.


25x19¼ inches, 63½x48¾ cm.
Condition A / A-: small loss in bottom left corner; minor restoration along vertical and horizontal folds.

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.