La Grande Réconciliation d’Octobre [poster] [Charlie Hebdo]

[Paris]: Hara-Kiri, 1968. Offset on thick stock. 12 x 15 5/8 in. Text in French. Very good, with a discoloration spot (1 1/2 in.) to the left margin. Item #7767

Satirical poster of a student protestor and a policeman kissing in the “great reconciliation” of October 1968, following the months of defeat and fading revolutionary sentiments that followed May 68 in Paris.

The poster was published by Hara-Kiri, a self-described “stupid and nasty” French satirical magazine, founded by Georges Bernier, François Cavanna and Fred Aristidès. It was known for its obscene, often abject, funny, and politically incorrect covers: one features an actor dressed as the Virgin Mary lifting up her skirt and saying she got an abortion; another, a lady in a bikini with burns from a steam iron under the title “can you get a tan without the sun?”; and another with the headline, “A proposal for a more humane death penalty: the chainsaw.” In 1970, after mocking the death of Charles de Gaulle, the magazine was banned; its founders, along with other cartoonists such as Georges Wolinsky, then created Charlie Hebdo, now best known for 2015’s terrorist attacks on their employees.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this item will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Price: $450.00