PAUL DAVIS (1938- ) HOLOCAUST. 1978.
28x20 inches, 71x50 3/4 cm.
Condition B+: minor abrasions at edges, minor creases in margins and image. Mounted on board.
An unusually rare poster for the seminal, critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning 1978 television miniseries. "Scholarly literature has tended to describe Holocaust as a watershed production that informed a rather uninformed public about the Holocaust, thus facilitating its integration into the collective memory of the United States. Nearly 120 million people watched it in the United States alone, making it to one of the biggest TV events ever (at its time only topped by the miniseries Roots)" (http://fyg.hypotheses.org/74). Davis, a talented illustrator and an early member of New York's famous Pushpin Studio, also designed numerous Broadway theatrical posters. This image appeared on the covers of various paperback editions of the book by Gerald Green, upon which the series was based, both domestic and foreign, and on the cover of the music album produced from the TV show. To our knowledge it has never before appeared as a poster.