Lot 1601
RENE GEORGES HERMANN PAUL
LES HYMNES ALLIES, 1917
Colour lithograph, published by Nouvel Essor, Paris
39 x 25.5cm.
Literature: En Guerre, French Illustrators and World War 1, Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein (Chicago, 2014)
* This lithograph celebrates the French-American alliance during the First World War. When the American Expeditionary Forces arrived in France, General John Pershing was said to exclaim, "Lafayette, we have come
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