| Marinus Les tricheurs (The cardsharps) 1939 Gelatin silver print, photomontage 18 x 24 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Photography, 6 June 2018, Lot: 4264 LL/82599 In this montage the false friends Ribbentrop and Stalin are sitting at a table playing a "dirty" game. It refers to the Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 1939 and the joint attack on Poland. Ribbentrop appears to be the more clever player, both are evidently swindlers.
This image was published on the title page of Marianne, no. 370, Nov. 22, 1939.
Lit.: Gunner Byskov/Bodo von Dewitz (eds.). Marinus Heartfield. Politische Fotomontagen der 1930er Jahre, Göttingen 2008, ill. pp. 120-121 (cat. no. 32).
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