Aug 01, 2012 - Sale 2284

Sale 2284 - Lot 141A

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SIGNATURE ILLEGIBLE WOLNOSC BOLSZEWICKA. 1920.
43x31 1/4 inches, 109x79 1/2 cm. W. Glowczewski, Warsaw.
Condition B+ / B: minor restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; loss in upper right corner; repaired tears, restoration and chipping in margins and image. Japan.
An anti-Bolshevik poster printed in Poland during the Polish-Soviet War, in which Leon Trotsky served as one of the Bolshevik commanders. In the gruesome and powerful image, Trotsky is depicted naked and red like the devil, seated upon a pile of skulls. He has a bloody dagger in one hand and a pistol in the other and is receiving advice from the specter of death who is whispering into his ear. The caption reads "Bolshevik Freedom."