Aug 06, 2008 - Sale 2152

Sale 2152 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FRITZ ERLER (1868-1940) UND IHR? Circa 1917.
55x35 inches, 139 1/2x89 cm. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin.
Condition B+: restorations along vertical and horizontal folds; creases and staining in margins. Two sheets.
A war bond poster which presents an unmitigated hero to the public for self-comparison. A wounded airman, his bloodied arm in a sling, is gripping the side of his cockpit as he takes to the skies again, despite his physical condition. Paret fig. 60, p. 46.