Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

"For the Redemption of Nation and Man" – Poster Designed by Moshe Vorobeichic – May 1, 1949

Opening: $300
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
"Legeulat HaAm veHaAdam" [For the redemption of Nation and Man]. Poster for May 1, 1949, issued by the Histadrut Labor Federation in Israel. Tel-Aviv: The Information Department of the Executive Committee, "Achdut" cooperative press, 1949. Design: Moshe Vorobeichic.
Illustration of a worker swinging a hammer on an anvil from which flames billow out. In this poster, the flames, the Hebrew caption "May 1, 1949" and the details of the printer were printed in bright yellow and are just barely seen (in the known version of the poster, these details were printed in red). See Kedem catalog 38, item 338.
Approx. 61X93 cm. In a 105X73 cm frame. Stains. Fold lines and several creases. Unexamined out of frame.
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