Aug 02, 2017 - Sale 2453

Sale 2453 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FORTUNINO MATANIA (1881-1963) "HELP THE HORSE TO SAVE THE SOLDIER." Circa 1917.
30x20 1/2 inches, 76 1/4x52 cm. W.F. Powers, New York.
Condition A: minor creases and abrasions at edges.
From an illustration he did for The Sphere (a magazine for which he was a war correspondent), this poster reflects Matania's talent for eliciting sentiment through detail. IWM p. 42, Rawls p. 238, Theofiles 288, Moving Images p. 32, Darracott p. 59.