Aug 05, 2009 - Sale 2185

Sale 2185 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE (1895-1989) 5000 DANISH SEAMEN. 2 posters. Circa 1941.
Each approximately 32x23 inches, 81x60 cm.
Condition varies, generally A-: restoration and overpainting in corners.
After the German invasion of Denmark in 1940, a small but determined group of Danish seamen sailed under the British flag to assist with the war effort. The "United Nations" mentioned is not the United Nations established after the war, but the allied nations united against Germany. Designed with photographs taken by the acclaimed fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe, these avant-garde style images show the strength, pride, determination and experience of the Danes.