229 290
S.P.K (DATES UNKNOWN)
356
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CONFIANCE . . . / SES AMPUTATIONS SE POURSUIVENT MÉTHODIQUEMENT.
Circa 1940s.
30x21
1
/
2
inches, 76x54
1
/
2
cm.
Condition B+: minor abrasions and restoration in margins and image; vertical and horizontal folds; light
staining in image; trimmed margins.
This is the smaller version. Weill 503, Judd 9.7.
[700/1,000]
PAUL DAVIS (1938- )
357
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HOLOCAUST. 1978.
28x20 inches, 71x50
3
/
4
cm.
Condition B+: minor abrasions at edges, minor creases in margins and image. Mounted on board.
An unusually
RARE
poster for the seminal, critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning 1978 television
miniseries. “Scholarly literature has tended to describe Holocaust as a watershed production that
informed a rather uninformed public about the Holocaust, thus facilitating its integration into the
collective memory of the United States. Nearly 120 million people watched it in the United States
alone, making it to one of the biggest TV events ever (at its time only topped by the miniseries
Roots
)”
(http://fyg.hypotheses.org/74). Davis, a talented illustrator and an early member of New York’s famous
Pushpin Studio, also designed numerous Broadway theatrical posters. This image appeared on the
covers of various paperback editions of the book by Gerald Green, upon which the series was based,
both domestic and foreign, and on the cover of the music album produced from the TV show. To our
knowledge it has
NEVER BEFORE APPEARED
as a poster.
[500/750]
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