LUTE PEASE "THE MAN OF VERDUN?!" ANTI-AXIS & VICHY FRANCE CARTOON ORIGINAL ART.
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Winning Bid:
$118.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:00:00 AM)
Item Description
15-1/8x9" artboard has pen and ink w/charcoal original art for cartoon by Lucius Curtis "Lute" Pease Jr. (1869-1963), an American editorial cartoonist and journalist. He was cartoonist for the "Newark Evening News" from 1914 to 1954 and received the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Art features Philippe Pétain (a survivor of the World War I Battle of Verdun between the French and German armies), holding a Nazi flag and leading a blindfolded woman towards dark woods filled w/shadowy wolves. A roadsign just outside the woods reads "Hitlerism." Pétain served as the Chief of State of Vichy France, the unoccupied "Free Zone" in the southern part of metropolitan France and French North Africa, which were occupied by Germany and Italy during World War II. Top has hand-lettered "The Man Of Verdun?!" title. Pease has signed at lower right. Back has printer's inkstamp w/penciled text. Artboard is evenly aged w/scattered margin wear. Art remains clean and VF overall.
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