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Poster - Ofensiva Para Euzkadi; Offensive for the Basque Country
  • Ofensiva Para Euzkadi
    Carmona, Juan Antonio Salvador
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Ofensiva Para Euzkadi; Offensive for the Basque Country

  • Object:

    Poster

  • Place of origin:

    Barcelona (city), Spain (originated)

  • Date:

    1937 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Carmona, Juan Antonio Salvador (artist)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Colour lithograph

  • Credit Line:

    Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko

  • Museum number:

    E.1651-2004

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case MM, shelf 9

  • Image in copyright

This poster was designed to encourage support in Catalonia for the Basques who, in 1937, were under siege by Nationalist forces, the latter supported by the German Condor Legion. It was the Condor Legion that bombed Guernica, the Basques' spiritual capital, in April 1937, and helped to organise the assault on the 'Iron Ring' defences around Republican Bilbao.

Physical description

Around a central image of a Republican woman urging men to fight are slightly abstracted depictions of the Basque and Catalan flags. In the lower foreground, six helmeted soldiers march in formation towards the right. They carry bayonets. In the middle ground are blue silhouettes of soldiers in battle. In the upper left corner of the rear ground, four black fighter planes are in flight.

Place of Origin

Barcelona (city), Spain (originated)

Date

1937 (made)

Artist/maker

Carmona, Juan Antonio Salvador (artist)

Materials and Techniques

Colour lithograph

Marks and inscriptions

'OFENSIVA PARA / EUZKADI' (from the Catalan) Offensive for the Basque Country

Dimensions

Height: 138.4 cm, Width: 100.2 cm

Descriptive line

Offensive for the Basque Country, Spanish Civil War poster by Carmona, 1937

Exhibition History

Propaganda Posters from the Schreyer Collection (Henry Cole Wing, Level 3 05/12/2002-23/03/2003)

Materials

Paper; Ink

Techniques

Colour lithography

Subjects depicted

War; Propaganda; Soldiers; Politics; Flags; Spain; Nationalism; Planes

Categories

Prints; Propaganda; Posters

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O100823
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