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Auction 13 · Lot 107
(HOLOCAUST).
- Estimate
- $600–$900
- Hammer price
- $400
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
United States, 1942.
Description
Ben Shahn."This is Nazi Brutality." Depicting a chained and hooded prisoner cornered under an ominous deep blue and grey sky. The lone prisoner is representative of the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia which was destroyed by the Germans in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. News of the massacre displayed in ticker-tape fashion along the center.
summary
This celebrated poster's imagery proved so disturbing to some that a Czechoslovakian-American organization canceled their original order. See Judah L. Magnes Museum Catalogue,Witnesses to History, The Jewish Poster (1989) p.100 (illustrated)
730x970 mm.
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