Lot 2206: Alexander Zhitomirsky (i.e. Alexander Arnoldowitsch Schitomirski) This Corporal is Leading Germany into a Catastrophe

Alexander Zhitomirsky (i.e. Alexander Arnoldowitsch Schitomirski)
This Corporal is Leading Germany into a Catastrophe
Later gelatin silver print of a photomontage
At upper edge mounted on original cardboard (35,3 x 23,3 cm), thereupon titled by Alexander Zhitomirsky with blue ballpoint pen in Cyrillic script. On the reverse inscribed in pencil by his son as well as inscribed and numbered in pencil by another hand
9 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.

1941

Exh. cat.: Alexander Zhitomirsky. Political Photomontage. San Francisco, Robert Koch Gallery, 1994, p. 9 (there as leaflet) / Exh. cat.: Aleksandr Zhitomirsky. Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2016, p. 74, ill. 4.2 and p. 123, pl. 13 (there each as leaflet)