Aug 04, 2010 - Sale 2220

Sale 2220 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952) IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT! / JOIN THE MARINES. 1915.
39 3/4x28 inches, 101x71 cm.
Condition B+ / A-: creases, abrasions and minor discoloration in margins and image.
An early sexy, taunting, challenging, and daring recruitment poster done two years before the United States entered World War I, which played upon "the confusion of genders [that] provided posters with provocative images like this ... whose purpose is the seduction of men into service" (Paret p.64). Rawls p. 249, Paret 89, Theofiles 66, Borkan p. 39, American Style 64.