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Maurice Ingres

Let’s End It Quick with Liberty Loans

1917 41¾ h × 28⅛ w in (106 × 71 cm)
estimate: $1,400–1,700
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Many posters for the first and second liberty loans employed Columbia as a harbinger of pressure; Ingres riffs on this motif, but personifies her as a young woman with a pleading—almost desperate—look in her eye. Behind her, a city is engulfed in flames, foreshadowing what might befall America if citizens don’t support the liberty loan effort. Theofiles called this poster “scarce.”
Central Litho. Co., Cleveland
literature: Theofiles, 121; Rawls, p. 202; PAI-LXXXVIII, 139

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