D0789

Illustration for “La Publicitat”

Ref Num.: D0789

Date: 1917

Typology: Drawing

Technique: Pen and watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 20 x 12.5 cm

Signed: Signed “Babel” top right-hand corner

Private collection

A soldier, who is probably German, with his trademark spiked helmet, and a man with a moustache wearing a Turkish fez. Illustration published in the satirical newspaper La Publicitat, Monday, 19th March 1917, no. 13,651, Barcelona, p. 1, under the title “Contigo pan y cebolla” (With you, I could live on bread and onions). This drawing was sold at a special auction at Bonanova Subastas on 21st December 2020, lot no. 63 (Untitled), as part of a lot comprising 85 other drawings from a “private collection of paintings”.

We are grateful to Bonanova Subastas for kindly granting permission to reproduce the following images.

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