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[THE DREYFUS AFFAIR] Alfred LE PETIT The Octopus Ink and gra…
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183
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[THE DREYFUS AFFAIR] Alfred LE PETIT The Octopus Ink and gra…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
[THE DREYFUS AFFAIR]
Alfred LE PETIT
The Octopus
Ink and graphite.
Signed top left.
Caricature published in *La Patrie*, 13 October 1899 issue.
Sheet: 32 x 25 cm – Drawing: 20.5 x 20.5 cm.
(Traces of adhesive on the corners).
Alfred LE PETIT, a famous caricaturist, was staunchly committed to the anti-Dreyfusard cause. He produced anti-Dreyfusard and even anti-Semitic caricatures for numerous newspapers.
A hydra, whose face bears anti-Semitic features, is strangling the Dreyfusards with its tentacles.
Keywords:
Judaica, Jew, Jewish, Hebrew, rabbis, Torah, Hebrew, Hebraica, Judaism, synagogue, Zionism, Passover, Pesach, Haggadah, Hagada, Hagada, Hagadah, Passover, menorah, Hanukkah, Torah, Juden, Israelite, Israel, anti-Semitism, Dreyfus, Megillah, Sephardic, ketubah
See original version (French)
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