Aug 04, 2010 - Sale 2220

Sale 2220 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HENRY KOERNER (1915-1991) SOMEONE TALKED! Circa 1943.
34 1/4x24 inches, 87x61 cm. Grinnell Lithographic Co., New York.
Condition B+: restoration and discoloration along sharp vertical and horizontal folds.
The Austrian-born Henry Koerner did at least two posters during World War II, both in 1943. For this image he won the R. Hoe & Co. award in the Museum of Modern Art's Artists for Victory competition. Word and Image p. 88, Nelson p. 94.