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

Estimate

$7,000–$9,000

Hammer price

$12,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

Place

Paris

Publication

1899-1900

references

See N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art Truth & Justice (1987) pp.242-52 (illustrated)

summary

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

Each laid down and bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Large folio

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