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Lot 38

Fritz Wotruba, Untitled (from the Flights Portfolio), 1971, International Rescue Committee New Yew,

Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Current Bid
$50
Buy Now Price
$750

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Fritz Wotruba, Untitled (from the Flights Portfolio), 1971, International Rescue Committee New Yew, Color Lithograph on Arches Paper (Unframed), 25 4/5 in. × 19 in. | 65.5 cm. × 48.3 cm. Edition 22 of 250. The original Fritz Wotruba Cover Folder is included in this Auction. The Flight Title Page, Flight T.S. Eliot Quote Page, and Flight Index are NOT included in this Auction Lot. In 1971, the Portfolio included twelve (12) hors d’commerce deluxe edition lithographs and serigraphs by artists: Eugene Berman, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Vieira da Silva, Adolph Gottlieb, Wifredo Lam, Jaques Lipchitz, André Masson, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, Edouard Pignon, and Fritz Wotruba.

It was created in the late 1960s to early 1970s at the behest of Varian Fry to raise awareness and funds for the IRC. Fry was a New York journalist who was sent to Marseilles with the Emergency Rescue Committee (later renamed the International Rescue Committee).

Often called the “American Schindler"; Fry conducted a covert rescue of more than 1,500 of Europe’s cultural leaders, many of who were on the Nazi’s list of most wanted, such as Hannah Arendt, André Breton, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jacques Lipchitz, Heinrich Mann, Alma Mahler, Gropius Werfel, and Nobel laureate Otto Meyerhoff.

Today, more than 40 years after the portfolio was produced, it is still raising awareness, and celebrating the vital work of the IRC.

Provenance: Miami, Florida Estate.

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Overall Dimensions
Width: 19.00
Weight: 3.00

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