Set of Musée des Horreurs lithographed posters. Numbers 1- 50 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

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Lot 154

(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

Set of Musée des Horreurs lithographed posters. Numbers 1- 50 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu

Each laid down and bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Large folio See N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art Truth & Justice (1987) pp.242-52 (illustrated)

Paris: 1899-1900

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $12,000

Anti-semitic political posters defaming prominent Jews and Dreyfusards, depicting their faces attached to grotesque animal bodies. These vicious posters appeared weekly in Paris beginning in the Fall of 1899, until stopped by order of the French Ministry of the Interior about a year later. Among those lambasted by the bigoted carcaturist are: Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Nathan Rothschild, Caroline Remy Guebhard and Jean Jaures. For another (incomplete) set of Musée des Horreurs posters see: Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, Judaica, 9th November 1998, lot 27