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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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