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(COLLAGE)
Group of 4 mixed-media items by French and Canadian makers that utilized collage.The first a large
watercolor of aWorldWar I scene commemorating the battle at Châlon, with original photographs
of two French soldiers; the second a smallerWorldWar I print with the face of a mustachioed French
figure; the third a Canadian pastiche with commercial labels bearing many different business logos
that is inset with 4 family photographs; the fourth a humorous chromolithograph of a muscleman
with a small photographic headshot. Overall various sizes from 5
3
/
4
x6
3
/
4
to 17x21 inches (14.6x17.1
to 43.2x53.3 cm.). 1914-1920s
[800/1,200]
WITH
—
Group of 3 framed items, comprising aWorldWar I printed memorial item entitled “In Flanders’
Fields,” with a poem dedicated to Lt. Col. John McCrae and a small picture of him; a study of a guy
that’s overlaid with his circular headshot and in an Art Deco frame; a collage of the “5 pins,” a bowling
team, in an unusually carved wooden frame. Silver prints, various sizes, overall size of frames 5x4 to
11
1
/
2
x9 inches. 1918-1940s.
From the Collection of John Silverstein.
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