Sale 2453 - Vintage Posters, August 2, 2017

BORIS EFIMOV (1899-2008) 200 ● WHAT IS AN “ARYAN”? / HE IS STREAMLINED AS GOERING. 1941. 27 3 / 4 x19 inches, 70 1 / 2 x48 1 / 4 cm. Russian War Relief Inc. Condition B+: minor restoration along losses and repaired tears at edges; creases and restoration in margins and image and along horizontal folds. Silkscreen. Originally, these were images for the TASS Window 22, which depicted Hitler, Goering and Goebbels. They “were lampooned . . . for possessing none of the physical attributes that the Nazis assigned to the ideal Aryan. The contrast between text and image pointedly and wittily demonstrates the disjuncture between Nazi ideology and reality . . . particularly striking here is the degree to which Efimov’s caricature of Goebbels resembles Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse” (see next lot) (Windows on the War p. 169). Windows on the War p. 117, 121 and 169 (all var), Rhodes p. 227. [1,000/1,500] BORIS EFIMOV (1899-2008) 201 ● WHAT IS AN “ARYAN”? / HE IS HANDSOME AS GOEBBELS. 1941. 27 1 / 2 x19 1 / 4 inches, 70x49 cm. Russian War Relief Inc. Condition B+: replaced upper right corner; repaired tear at top edge, into text; minor restoration and creases at edges and along horizontal fold; repaired pin hole at bottom right corner. Silkscreen. “TASS 22 appeared in a variety of Soviet publications throughout the war . . . in the United States, Russian War Relief, Inc. (RWR), published a suite of four prints based on a selection of TASS posters, among them the Goebbels and Goering panels of TASS 22. The entire poster was reproduced in Life on August 24, 1942” (Windows on the War p. 169). Windows on the War p. 117, 121 and 169 (all var). [1,000/1,500] 200 201

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