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DESIGNER UNKNOWN
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LE “MARCONI HUIT.” Circa 1934.
63x47 inches, 160x119
1
/
2
cm. Lecram-Servant, Paris.
Condition B+ / B: creases and abrasions along vertical and horizontal folds; tears in top and right margins;
creases in margins and image. Paper.
This same image appeared as a magazine ad in 1934 which helps us date the poster.
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JEAN CARLU (1900-1997)
44
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POUR LE DÉSARMEMENT DES NATIONS. 1932.
61x45 inches, 155x114
1
/
4
cm. H. Chachoin, Paris.
Condition B+ / B: creases, abrasions and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds and in image;
repaired tears and recreated losses at edges.
In 1932 Carlu founded the Office de Propagande pour la Paix, a non-profit agency dedicated to pre-
serving peace in Europe. This was the first poster he produced for this organization (from a
photograph taken by Andre Vigneau), and it remained one of the best. As Carlu stated himself in
interviews, he created the image using the basic structures of cubism: the sphere, the triangle and the
square. The sharp triangle represents the path of the falling bombs (a shape echoed in the photograph