Complete set of Musée des Horreurs lithographed posters. Numbers 1- 51 by V. Lenepveu. * WITH: Four rare Musée des Patriotes lithographed posters. Multi-colored tones

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

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Lot 225

(DREYFUS, ALFRED)

Complete set of Musée des Horreurs lithographed posters. Numbers 1- 51 by V. Lenepveu. * WITH: Four rare Musée des Patriotes lithographed posters. Multi-colored tones

Laid back to back, marginal wear, one leaf loose. Bound in contemporary calf-backed boards, titled in gilt. 49x645mm

French, 1899-1900:

Est: $12,000 - $18,000

PRICE REALIZED $16,000

Anti-semitic political posters defaming prominent Jews and Dreyfusards. The posters appeared weekly in Paris beginnnig in the Fall of 1899, until stopped by order of the French Ministry of the Interior about a year later. Among the caracatures are: Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Nathan Rothschild, Caroline Remy Guebhard and Jean Jaures.The four supplemental Musée des Patriotes posters are unrecorded in the Jewish Museum Catalogue and are indeed most uncommon. For another (incomplete) set of Musée des Horreurs posters see: Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, Judaica, 9th November 1998, lot 27