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POUR LA LIBERTE DU MONDE POUR LA LIBERTE DU MONDE war poster OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3j0515 POUR LA LIBERTE DU MONDE linen 31x47 French WWI war poster 1917 SEM art of Statue of Liberty! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked French World War I Poster (measures 30 1/2" x 46 1/2" [77 x 118 cm]) (Learn More) Pour La Liberte Du Monde (literally translates to "For the Freedom of the World"), the 1917 French World War I (WWI) War Bonds poster commissioned by the Banque Nationale De Credit to encourage citizens to help the war efforts through bond sales in the "Third Annual Defense Loan", which was held from November 25th to December 16th. Note that this poster features SEM (Georges Goursat) artwork of the Statue of Liberty rising over the horizon, as seen from France (looking westward over the ocean), and was paying tribute to the United States officially entering the war. Using this imagery on this poster was paying tribute to the United States having entered the war in April of 1917, and was reminding France that the friendship between the two countries dated all the way back to the American Revolution, when France played a key role in helping America secure its independence, and then gave the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. a century later. The Statue of Liberty is very rarely seen in any posters from this perspective! Artist: SEM (Georges Goursat) Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this French poster, and it sold for $860! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had a few small tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the folds, and some pretty minor border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but it is slightly "lifting" from the linen in the bottom right corner, and it is rippled in the bottom center (this can be fixed by any talented restorer without re-backing the poster, and once it is fixed, the poster will grade as "very good". Learn More about condition grades 
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