Aug 02, 2017 - Sale 2453

Sale 2453 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
VOJTECH PREISSIG (1873-1944) HRR NA VRAHA! / ZA DEMOKRACII! 1918.
35 3/4x25 inches, 90 3/4x63 1/2 cm. Wentworth Institute, Boston.
Condition A / A-: minor tears and creases in upper left corner. Linocut. Paper.
"For Our Independence / Attack the Killer For Our Democracy." "In France the Czechs who wanted to fight against [the] Austro-Hungarian Empire were allowed to join the Foreign Legion (hence originated the term Legion for units of Czechoslovak volunteers)" (Wikipedia). Eybl p. 99, Rickards 109, Theofiles p. 30.