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Auction archive: Lot number 184

EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954

Modernist Posters
7 May 2007
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,920
Auction archive: Lot number 184

EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954

Modernist Posters
7 May 2007
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,920
Beschreibung:

EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) YUGOSLAV PEOPLE / DEATH TO FASCISM / LIBERTY TO THE PEOPLE! Circa 1944 25x19 inches. L.I.P & B.A., New York. Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal fold; minor restoration in margins and corners. During the Second World War Kauffer aligned his talents with many disparate causes, designing posters on behalf of a multitude of organizations. Here for the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans, Kauffer depicts a heroic photomontage of Marshall Tito (Josef Broz) surrounded by arrows, providing a dramatic sense of movement, progress and change. A rare, political image from World War II. Mechanical Age pl. 103.

Auction archive: Lot number 184
Auction:
Datum:
7 May 2007
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) YUGOSLAV PEOPLE / DEATH TO FASCISM / LIBERTY TO THE PEOPLE! Circa 1944 25x19 inches. L.I.P & B.A., New York. Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal fold; minor restoration in margins and corners. During the Second World War Kauffer aligned his talents with many disparate causes, designing posters on behalf of a multitude of organizations. Here for the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans, Kauffer depicts a heroic photomontage of Marshall Tito (Josef Broz) surrounded by arrows, providing a dramatic sense of movement, progress and change. A rare, political image from World War II. Mechanical Age pl. 103.

Auction archive: Lot number 184
Auction:
Datum:
7 May 2007
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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