Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
KARL KOEHLER (1913-2000) AND VICTOR ANCONA (1912-1998) THIS IS THE ENEMY. 1942.
34x23 3/4 inches, 86 1/2x60 1/4 cm. Grinnell Lithographic Co., New York.
Condition B: overpainting in margins, image and text; restored losses in margins; repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired pin holes in corners.
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 67, The Modern Poster 193, The Modern American 55, Avant Garde p. 177, Rhodes p. 168.