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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
VOJTECH PREISSIG ARTS AND CRAFTS OF THE HOMELANDS. Circa 1918. 36x24 inches. (91 x 61 cm.) Wentworth Institute, Boston. Condition B / B+: restoration and resotred losses along sharp crease in image; repaired tears at edges. The Wentworth Institute, in Boston, was a premier graphic art center in its day. Vojtech Preissig was a Czechoslovak who came to America and directed the institute between 1916 and 1924. During World War I the institute published a series of linoleum cut posters that Preissig designed. Mostly they were World War I propaganda, calling on Czechoslovaks living abroad to join the fight. By all previous accounts there were only 16 images in the series. This previously undocumented image is listed as number 18, and is one of the rare non-militaristic poster images produced during his American sojourn. All the other images in the series were also reproduced as post cards; it is not known if this image was.
