Auction 75 · Lot 79
Smotri Tovarishch [“Look, Comrade.”] “Anti-Semitism Is Against the Revolution - The Anti-Semite Is Our Class Enemy.”
- Estimate
- $5,000–$7,000
- Hammer price
- $10,500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(SOVIET UNION)
Place
1928
Description
Designed by Aleksandr Tyshler.
summary
Communist agitprop blaming anti-Semitism on the Czarist regime.
A representative group of Russia’s dignitaries and social classes present a bouquet of severed heads. “See, these are the animal-like people who brought anti-Semitism to Czarist Russia. All the class enemies you know: The Czar, the minister, the priest, the landowner, the kulak, the gendarme, the Black Hundreds - they are the organizers of the pogroms and caused the persecution of the Jews.”
24 x 39 inches (61 x 99.1 cm). Framed.
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