Aug 06, 2003 - Sale 1975

Sale 1975 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HELP YOUR COUNTRY STOP THIS / ENLIST IN THE NAVY. Circa 1917.
601/2x771/4 inches. American Lithographic Co., New York.
Condition B+: restoration, repaired tears and overpainting along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears in margins.
A lithographic masterpiece portraying the survivors of a U-boat attack in their life boat struggling against the raging sea. That Brangwyn chose a monochromatic scheme and such a large format only intensifies the emotion expressed by the image, lending it an air of reality, desperation and grit. One of only two posters Brangwyn produced in America during the war. Rawls p. 80, Theofiles 50, Navy Posters 1.