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Auction History Result 2r0144 MUSEE DES HORREURS #1 20x25 French special poster 1899 wildly anti-Semitic Lenepveu art! Date Sold 8/4/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Folded French Special Poster (measures 19 3/4" x 25" [50 x 64 cm]) (Learn More) Musee Des Horreurs (literally translates to "Museum of Horrors") was a series of anti-Dreyfusard posters (Dreyfusards were those who supported Alfred Dreyfus of the Dreyfus Affair political scandal). These posters were nationalist, anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic caricatures, drawn and published in France by V. Lenepveu between October 1899 and December 1900. Note that no one knows for sure who V. Lenepveu was, but it could have been journalist Auguste-Victor Lenepveu. There were 52 posters in this series, and they are quite rare, both because of their printing relatively small numbers of each, and because the police harassed the publishers and seized some of them! You can find a great deal more about this series with images of all the posters on its French Wikipedia page. In the past decade, Sotheby's has auctioned complete and incomplete sets of these posters for tens of thousands of dollars! Artist: V. Lenepveu Important Added Info: Note that this rabidly anti-Semitic poster shows a cartoon image of Joseph Reinach as a monkey, holding a letter demanding "the rehabilitation of this scoundrel D." (an allusion to one of the documents in the prosecution case against Dreyfus). Condition: good. The poster has substantial paper loss around the edges as well as several tears of varying lengths (some are large) and there is separation along the center horizontal fold. Someone backed many of the tears and areas of separation with brown paper tape. Many of the defects affect blank paper and certainly this very rare poster could be restored, but bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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