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October 8, 2013
October 7, 2013
Swann Galleries, Vintage Posters auction, August 7th!
Sale 2321...
Swann Galleries, Vintage Posters auction, August 7th!
FRED SPEAR (DATES UNKNOWN) ENLIST. 1915.
32x23 inches, 82x58 cm. Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, New York.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins and image; minor losses, restored losses, and staining in margins; faded.
"Without a doubt the rarest and most elusive of war posters produced in the United States" (Theofiles p. 21). Published in June 1915 by the Boston Committee of Public Safety in response to the sinking of the Lusitania, which claimed 128 American lives, Spear’s poster chillingly, hauntingly and poignantly stirs our emotions by showing us the callous destruction of innocence. It is at first glance a softly rendered, tender, passionate and almost romantic image, but upon closer inspection the horrible truth becomes apparent. This mother and her baby are sinking in the ocean; the soft rendering is the nightmare of the murky sea, and, indeed, the two are surrounded by almost dream-like images of fish and seaweed. “Like the occasion that produced it [the poster] was unforgettable" (Rickards p. 22). The image was based on a widely circulated news account from Ireland about the sinking of the Lusitania, “On the Cunard wharf lies a mother with a three-month-old child clasped tightly in her arms. Her face wears a half smile. Her baby’s head rests against her breast. No one has tried to separate them." Paret 34, Darracott 43, Rawls p. 68, Theofiles 8 (var), Rickards 159, IWM p. 53, Borkan p. 14, American Style pl. 59.
Estimate $5,000-7,500
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October 6, 2013
Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, Portrait of Baron Rene Hyacinthe...
Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, Portrait of Baron Rene Hyacinthe Holstein, 1818
Beachgoers in Spain discover 30-foot giant squid
Carcass found...
Beachgoers in Spain discover 30-foot giant squid
Carcass found in Cantabria is that of the mysterious and fabled Architeuthis Dux; it remains unclear whether the deep-sea denizen will be put on display
The Infanta Catalina Micaela of Spain and Portugal (1567-1597),...
The Infanta Catalina Micaela of Spain and Portugal (1567-1597), daughter of Felipe II and Duchess of Savoy through her marriage to Charles Emmanuel I.
Catalina Micaela was very close to her older sister Isabel Clara Eugenia and her father. Her early death at 30 was a terrible blow to both of them and the elderly Spanish King would die a year later in 1598. Her three eldest sons moved to their uncle’s court in Madrid to complete their education in 1903.
Her third son, Emmanuel Filibert of Savoy, entered in the service of her brother King Felipe III in 1610. His uncle made him Grand Admiral and appointed him Viceroy of Sicily.
Her eldest daughter, Margaret of Savoy, Duchess consort of Mantua and Montferrat, was appointed Vicereine of Portugal by her cousin King Felipe IV. She died in her mother’s native Spain 15 years after Portugal’s independence.
