“I Os Shcho” [“And Here it Got Really Ugly.”]
AUCTION 75 |
Thursday, March 08th,
2018 at 1:00 PM
Auction of Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art
Lot 86
(SOVIET UNION)
“I Os Shcho” [“And Here it Got Really Ugly.”]
c. 1937:
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,250
A gleeful Jewish figure is seen punching through Stalin’s 1936 USSR Constitution, specifically Article 3, which states: “All power in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic belongs to the working people of town and country.” The Constitution itself is depicted with numerous Stars-of-David.