Aug 06, 2003 - Sale 1975

Sale 1975 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LEOPOLDO METLICOVITZ SEMPRE AVANTI!!
261/4x341/2 inches. G. Ricordi, Milan.
Condition B+: paper loss, tears and creases in wide margins; writing in right and bottom margins. Paper.
A grand and heroic depiction, almost painterly-like, of Italia leading Italian troops into battle, the Italian navy arrayed behind them on the sea. "The Italian war poster combined a note of sex-appeal with a stateliness . . . there is a continuing motif of the dominant female figure, solemnising allegiance, signposting the way to the battle" (Rickards p. 24). Rickards 34.