Graphics Marx Karl Text (4 results)

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. A Fine copy. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a charcoal pencil illustration of a worker leading a train of oxen, pulling a load of lumber, with text from "The Labor Process and the Process of Producing Surplus Value" on the opposite page. 82065. Signed.…

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. Faint crease along the upper edge, else Fine. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a large charcoal illustration of track wheel machinery, with text from "Constant Capital and Variable Capital" on the opposite page. 82075.…

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. A Fine copy. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a charcoal illustration of a fist clutching three individual stalks of wheat, with text from "Commodities" (The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value) on the opposite page. 82064. Signed.…

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. Some trivial wear and a few faint creases to extremities, else a very Near Fine copy. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a large charcoal illustration of an elderly John D. Rockefeller, his hands together in prayer while being strangled by a stock ticker tape machine, with text from "Primary Accumulation" (Origin of the Industrial Capitalist) on the opposite page. 82061. Signed. …