Jun 17 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2709 -

Sale 2709 - Lot 60

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
EDWARD SOREL (1929 - )
Liberté! Egalité! Chasteté!

Watercolor and ink on board, 1972. 424x316 mm; 16¾x12½ inches. Signed in lower left image. Inscribed on verso, For Robert Krueger, with every good wish, Edward Sorel, 1/28/74. Accompanied by a print reproduction of the magazine cover.

Publication
Cover illustration for The Atlantic, August 1972.
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Edward Sorel has been a freelance artist since 1957, his work appearing in the form of covers, caricatures, and cartoons across various important publications. Lauded by The New York Timesas "one of America's foremost political satirists," Sorel's witty and cutting illustrations have long taken a bold stance.

This cover for The Atlantic is Sorel's tongue-in-cheek take on controversial journalist Midge Decter's accompanying article, "Toward the New Chastity." Decter's article, criticizing the pursuit of sexual freedom in the Women's Liberation movement, would likely have opposed the perspective that Sorel built his career expressing. His satirical take on the story depicts two masked women with the Women's Liberation symbol emblazoned on their chests leading a frightened, nude man to the guillotine.

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