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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952) IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT! 1915. 40 1/4x30 inches, 102x76 1/2 cm. Condition B+: restoration and overpainting along sharp vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears, creases and discoloration in margins and image. An early sexy, taunting, challenging, and daring recruitment poster done two years before the United States entered the war, 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.
