Auction 90 · Lot 37
Musée des Horreurs. Number 6 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu.
- Estimate
- $400–$600
- Hammer price
- $600
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(DREYFUS AFFAIR).
Place
Paris, 1899-1900
Description
Lithographed poster, multi-colored tones.
summary
Anti-Semitic political poster from a series defaming prominent Jews and Dreyfusards. The 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.
No. 6 here, caricatures as a serpent, Alfred Dreyfus himself, and is the most iconic of the entire series.
26 x 20 inches (66 x 50.8 cm). Framed.
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