Feb 29, 2024 - Sale 2660

Sale 2660 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

LEONETTO CAPPIELLO (1875-1942)

L'ACTION COMBATTANTE. 1934.


47x32 inches, 119½x81¼ cm. Devambez, Paris.
Condition B+: small losses, replaced losses, creases, abrasions and staining along vertical and horizontal folds; slight foxing and staining in image; slight darkening at edges.

"The worker stomping out corruption and other vermin on behalf of L'Action Combattante epitomizes a group of militant radical activists originally founded in 1901 by Henry Berenger, a senator from Guadeloupe. It served various causes over the years; during World War II, for example, it issued a clandestine newspaper of the French Resistance" (Cappiello / Rennert p. 316). Cappiello / Rennert 514.