Anti Nazi WWII Hitler Throne Sleeping Dreaming

£450.00

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster featuring a caricature by the British cartoon artist KEM Kimon Evan Marengo (1904-1988), produced for the Ministry of Information with a quote in Persian - Thus he saw that from the palace of the Emperor three warriors suddenly came forward - adapted from the Shahnameh / Book of Kings by the renowned Persian poet and author Ferdowsi (Abul-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi; 940-019/1025CE). Great design depicting Hitler as the mythical figure Zahhak with the faces of Mussolini and Tojo as the evil king's snakes growing out of his shoulders, sleeping on a red daybed with his dream in a cloud above showing Churchill smoking a cigar on a horse with a Union Jack flag, Stalin smoking a pipe and Roosevelt on a horse with the American flag in front of a palace building, his guards wearing swastika armbands armed with guns and knives with a monkey character with devil horns and tail and horse hoof feet in foreground. Good condition, pinholes, staining, creasing, small tears on edges.

Country

UK

Year

1943

Style

Propaganda Posters

Artist

Kimon Evan Marengo

Size (cm)

34x23