Aug 01, 2018 - Sale 2484

Sale 2484 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
KARL KOEHLER (1913-2000) & VICTOR ANCONA (1912-1998) THIS IS THE ENEMY. 1942.
34 1/4x23 3/4 inches, 87x60 1/4 cm. Grinnell Lithographic Co., New York.
Condition A- / B+: creases and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds.
This chilling image was the winner of the National War Poster Competition of 1942, held under the auspices of the Museum of Modern Art. American Style 67, Modern Poster 193, Modern American 55, Avant Garde p. 177, Rhodes p. 168, Pollack p. 229, MoMA 147.1968.