Description: VERY RARE-AIRMAIL - "Visual History of Nations" Title Pages -Stamp album cover– SIGNED lithograph BY Arthur Szyk “A Visual History of the Nations” AIRMAIL Signed Title Page Lithograph by Arthur Szyk Published by K. Bileski, Winipeg, Canada Lithographed by Herman Jaffe, Printer, New York, NY Paper size 11 3/4x10" First editions 1945-47 Each is signed in ink to the lower right corner by Szyk with "First Edition" stamped in red on the reverse side. This item also has a COPY of the what the original offering looked like. Background Postwar lithographs by artist Arthur Szyk depicting a visual representation of the history of selected early U.N. Members. Arthur Szyk was a Polish-Jewish artist who fled Nazi-controlled Europe for London in 1937, and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1940. He started his career in book illustration and was considered one of the greatest modern practitioners of the art of illumination. His widely published caricatures made him one of the most famous political satirists during World War II. In 1945, he was commissioned by Canadian philatelist Kasimir Bileski to create illustrations for a series of stamps depicting the Visual History of Nations (United Nations). Szyk designed the stamp album frontispieces for nine countries, including one for Israel, but died in 1951 before the project could be competed. A valuable addition for any collector. Priced well below current art auction estimates for signed lithographs. ———-
Price: 65 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2024-12-09T13:46:15.000Z
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Region: United States
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