?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG (1870-1960)
I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. 1917.
40 1/4x29 3/4 inches, 102 1/4x75 1/2 cm. Leslie-Judge Co., New York. Condition B+: repaired tears and abrasions in margins; minor repaired tears in image; extensive creases in margins and image.
"The best known American poster of all time" (Darracott xviii) and clearly "a cultural icon" (Power of the Poster p. 162) of 20th century imagery and propaganda. Flagg p. 80 and cover, American Style 60, IWM I p. 27, Rawls p. 13, Theofiles 11, Darracott 13, Rickards 14, Borkan p. 13, Word & Image p. 48, Modern American 24, Power of The Poster 156, War Posters 18.
