ARTHUR SZYK KKK AND RIGHT WINGERS PLOTTING AGAINST ROOSEVELT ORIGINAL PEN & INK WATERCOLOR.
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$1,518.00 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:00:00 PM)
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Auction #214 - Part II
Item numbers 1008 through 2793 in auction 214
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Item Description
Elaborate hand done lattice work art mat has 6.5x8” opening revealing pen & ink watercolor art. Art was taped to back of this mat at time of creation w/strips of adhesive tape. Hand inked caption has hooded and robed Klansman telling thugs at table “That Roosevelt Is A Bolshevik! He Wants Us To Win This War!” Man w/cigarette has pistol in back pocket, other two smoke cigars. Sign on wall is titled “Social Justice” w/swastika. Signed in ink at lower right “Arthur Szyk N.Y. 43.” Art is lightly tanned at extreme edges, art otherwise VF/Exc. Published in Aug. 29, 1944 “PM Magazine”. Polish-American Arthur Szyk (1894-1951)is well known for his detailed illustrations based on Jewish and Anti-Axis subjects in WWII. From the Schechter Family Collection.
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