Feb 08, 2011 - Sale 2236

Sale 2236 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
KAUFFMAN (DATES UNKNOWN) [DEFEND YOUR HOMELAND / ENLIST.] 1942.
38x26 1/4 inches, 96 1/2x66 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tears and restoration at edges; minor restoration in image.
"Members of the Jewish community in the Land of Israel were urged to enlist in the British armed forces. In 1942, German troops commanded by Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel advanced into Egypt. The threat this presented to the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel sparked appeals for mass enlistment into the British forces defending the Middle East" (Images of a State in the Making, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Exhibition 1997).