Allied Poster (2 results)

Condition: Very Good. 33'' x 23'' original one sheet lobby or outside advertisement poster. In Very Good condition with minor crease lines to the edges. Sent rolled in a tube with end caps. We currently hold in stock over 100 other English and foreign theatre and cinema posters. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE (Cinema) POSTERS.…

Carlu, Jean. Entre le Marteau.et l'Enclume!, 1944, uses bold wartime graphic design to present Nazi Germany as trapped between Allied force and French resistance. Printed in Philadelphia for the French Commissariat à l'Information, the poster belongs to the visual culture of Free French propaganda before the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Its crossed-out swastika, hammer, anvil, and Allied flags turn a familiar French expression into a direct political image of Nazi defeat. Carlu, Jean. Entre le Marteau.et l'Enclume! Paris/Algiers: République Française, Commissariat à l'Information, 1944. Printed by McCandlish Lithograph Corporation, Philadelphia. Color lithograph poster. 20 7/8 x 14 11/16 inches. Signed in print by the artist. The image shows a hammer descending on a swastika, its handle bearing the flags of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France, while the French anvil completes the visual metaphor of enemy destruction "between the hammer and the anvil." Larger institutional and market records also identify McCandlish as printer for this design. The poster was produced as Allied military momentum made the liberation of occupied France imminent; Paris was liberated between August 19 and August 25, 1944. Carlu, a major French poster artist active in the United States during the war, brought modernist clarity to Allied political messaging, making the poster valuable for the study of propaganda, French exile production, and anti-Nazi visual culture. Generally very good. A sharply designed Free French wartime poster joining Allied military power to the symbolic restoration of France. Signed.…