16 000 CZK
| 696 €
Lot 73
SAVE THE BABIES
After 1916
coloured woodcut, paper
In frame 68 x 39,5 cm (h x w)
unsigned
Starting price
Price realized
17 000 CZK
| 739 €
| 739 €
price without premium
Vojtěch Preissig worked in New York in the years 1910 - 1916, then in Boston at the end of World War I, and then again in N.Y. with breaks in the 1920s. - in various graphics schools. The poster may have been created in Boston, where Preissig taught at the Wentworth Institute. After 1916 in Boston, he created a number of posters not only for the Czechoslovak resistance (legion), but also for the US army.