Original cartoon illustration, The Colossus Leans, ca 1943

by John Groth

$500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

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ca 1943 . Original cartoon illustration in black ink on watercolor paper; sheet size 63cm x 50cm ca 24-13/4 x 19-3/4 . Signed in ink lower right. Drawing spotted and lightly soiled; glue remnants to margin, apparently from a removed mat; title in pencil below image; Very Good. A large and accomplished caricature in which a panicked Hitler attempts to prop up a collapsing statue of Mussolini; probably drawn following the Allied invasion of Sicily in

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