Feb 08, 2011 - Sale 2236

Sale 2236 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
SHAMIR (DATES UNKNOWN) [GARB YOURSELF IN GLORY - JOIN THE ATS.] 1940.
36 3/4x25 inches, 93 1/2x63 1/2 cm. A. Kaufman, Tel-Aviv.
Condition B+: vertical and horizontal folds; abrasions in image.
"Young Jewish women were encouraged to enlist in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a women's unit of the British armed forces. Appeals directed at the Jewish community urged tens of thousands of women aged 20 to 45 to enlist. Jewish women who signed up for the ATS served in Egypt, mainly as drivers of military vehicles" (Images of a State in the Making, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Exhibition 1997).