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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
H. R. HOPPS DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE. Circa 1917. 42x28 inches. Condition B+: expert overpainting and repaired tears in margins, some affecting image. Fantastic, political cartoon-style image depicting the horrors of the Germans invading America. A red-tongued and drooling gorilla, whose helmet reads "Militarism", is clutching a desperate maiden, her blue dress torn off, with one paw and a bloody club, reading "kultur", with the other; against a green background; lettering in orange. Popular folklore has it that this image was the influence for King Kong. Rawls p. 66, Paret 32, Borkan cov. and 16.
