Aug 02, 2017 - Sale 2453

Sale 2453 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LAURA BREY (DATES UNKNOWN) ENLIST / ON WHICH SIDE OF THE WINDOW ARE YOU? 1917.
38 3/4x25 1/2 inches, 98 1/2x64 3/4 cm. National Printing & Eng. Co., Chicago.
Condition B+ / B: tears, creases, losses, restored losses and abrasions in margins. Paper.
A young man in a suit (perhaps a student) watches a column of soldiers march past his window. "The window - a poster within the poster - separates the bright male world of waving flags and marching columns from the darkened interior feminine space . . . [exploiting] men's anxiety over their masculinity by suggesting the effeminacy of the man who does not enlist" (Paret p. 56). Paret 75, Rawls p. 82, Theofiles 10, Borkan p. 44, Picture This fig. 48.