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JEAN CARLU (1900-1997)
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ENTRE LE MARTEAU . . . ENTRE LE MARTEAU. 1944.
45x31 inches, 114
1
/
4
x78
1
/
2
cm. McCandlish Lithograph Corporation, Philadelphia.
Condition B: restored losses and overpainting in image; pin holes, abrasions, minor losses and staining in
margins and image; light vertical and horizontal folds.
With the landing of the Allied forces in Normandy and Provence, it was becoming joyfully clear that
the Nazis would be crushed “between the hammer and the anvil;” the anvil represented the French
resistance that had been fighting the German occupying forces for years and the hammer, the combined
might of all the Allied forces. The image perfectly captures the concept of the Germans being shattered
by these two mighty powers. Commissioned by the Allies on behalf of the free French government in
Algiers, this poster was posted in France after D-Day. Carlu 54.
[600/900]