Aug 01, 2018 - Sale 2484

Sale 2484 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JEAN CARLU (1900-1997) GIVE 'EM BOTH BARRELS. 1941.
30x39 1/2 inches, 76x10 1/4 cm. U.S. Government Printing Office, [Washington, D.C.]
Condition A-: creases and minor restoration along vertical and horizontal folds. Framed.
In 1939, while still in France, Carlu designed a poster promoting the "Anglo-French Day for the benefit of the combatants and their families," featuring two soldiers in profile, a theme which he clearly replicated in this 1941 poster, but with far more effect and impact. "A visual analogy is found between a machine gun and a rivet-gun" (Word & Image p. 61), driving home the connection between homefront workers and front-line soldiers. This is the larger of two formats. Carlu 50, Design for Victory p. 29, Word & Image p. 61, Modern American 46, IWM II p. 24, Modern Poster 195, Judd 4.7, Nelson p. 65, Pollack pl. 243, Rhodes p. 151.