[GRAPHICS] MARX, Karl (text); GELLERT, Hugo (illustrations)

Signed Lithograph [From] Karl Marx: Capital in Pictures

[White Plains, NY: Hugo Gellert, 1933]. Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. Some trivial wear and a few faint creases to extremities, else a very Near Fine copy.

Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a large charcoal illustration of an elderly John D. Rockefeller, his hands together in prayer while being strangled by a stock ticker tape machine, with text from "Primary Accumulation" (Origin of the Industrial Capitalist) on the opposite page. 82061.

Price: $500.00

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