Antikbar Original Vintage Posters
Lot 315
Original vintage propaganda poster insert published during the Civil War in Spain by the Republican Estudios magazine titled Octavo mandamiento: No mentiras / Eighth commandment: no lies, with a photomontage / collage of images of people's bodies covered in blood, image of a crowd overlaid with an image of bayonets, the black sign reads - Official statement: The most absolute order and tranquillity reign throughout the country. - the reverse of the poster is titled Los nuevos ouenos del mundo / The new dreams of the world, with an illustration of a hand with sharp red nails squeezing a globe in chains, and photographs of Italy, German Nazi saluting Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini, Rockefeller, Goering, Hindenburg. The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with anarchists, of the communist and syndicalist variety, fought against an insurrection by the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, fascists, conservatives and traditionalists, led by a military group among whom General Francisco Franco soon achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets and was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, and between fascism and communism. According to Claude Bowers, U.S. ambassador to Spain during the war, it was the "dress rehearsal" for World War II. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975. Josep Renau Berenguer (17 May 1907 — 11 November 1982) was an artist and communist revolutionary notable for his propaganda work during the Spanish Civil War. Among his production, it is remarkable his art deco period, his political propaganda during the Spanish Civil War, the photomurals of the Spanish Pavilion in the International Exhibition of 1937 in Paris, a series of photomontages titled Fata Morgana or The American Way of Life, and murals and paintings made in Mexico such as Tropic, dated in 1945. Fair condition, fold, tears, paper losses, creasing, browning, double sided. Country of issue: Spain, designer: Josep Renau, size (cm): 37x26, year of printing: 1940s
