One man’s “face” was saved! 

• 1941 
• Milians, Max P. 
• Drawing 
• Cartoons 

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Drawings / paintings

One man’s “face” was saved!

35.5 x 28 cm

1941

Original political/editorial, 1941, by American editorial cartoonist Max P. Milians (1908-2005), probably for the Jewish Standard, with which he was associated for most of his life, although his work was also syndicated across America from the 1930s to the 1970s. Milians signed his cartoons with nine zeros as a punning underline. The cartoon shows wartime destruction and many gravestones for the casualties of the German/Italian invasion of Greece in 1941. Italy had invaded Greece in October 1940 but without success, and in April 1941 Hitler came to the help of his ally and quickly overcame Greek resistance. The ‘face’ being saved is that of the Italian leader Mussolini. Produced in ink and crayon over graphite on textured card; image area 31 x 25.5 cm, card size 35.5 x 28 cm. Title in pencil in upper margin. Signed lower right. Verso has a second cartoon: ‘Bill of Rights and 6th Commandment Go Hang’, referring to the failure in 1941 (once again) of an anti-lynching bill to pass the US Senate, mainly on the pretext that such a measure was not a matter to be dealt with by the federal government but by the individual states. It was only in 2022 that such a federal anti-lynching act was signed into law by President Biden. Some light soiling on both sides, and adhesive remnants to lower margin on verso, otherwise in very good condition