CARL-JOHAN DE GEER. "USA KILLER".

Not signed, color serigraphy published in 1967, 59x44 cm, not framed.
Inscription in red chalk: (upper line indecipherable) Hello, you rats!
Signed by Marie-Louise de Geer (now Ekman) during a so-called happy and possibly wet evening in the current owner's former residence, Lund.
The owner's own text: "I had bought the poster in Stockholm, I don't remember exactly where.
It was the sort of thing you had on your walls back then during the Vietnam movement when the US war upset so many of us young people.
I also had a lito of Bengt Böckman - an American soldier guarding an orangery containing a banking palace. (He did not choose such motifs later.) At some point, however, a communist-hating Polish visitor got pissed off at de Geer's poster and tore it down - hence the damage. A great quarrel arose.
Such were the times. But it was set up again. With staples.
On another occasion, Marie-Louise Ekman, then divorced from CJde Geer and remarried Bergenstråhle - whom I didn't know, ML that is - came here late one evening (uninvited) when a party was going on here and few guests were sober together with someone I don't remember . Could it have been Johan Bergenstråhle who had previously staged plays at the student theater in Lund? Anyway, she scribbled her greeting on her ex-husband's poster - hello you rats. Maybe with a lipstick? Rats probably meant something special to her - she started her summer program on radio 77 by introducing herself as the piss rat herself. But I was not happy the next day when I discovered her blunder which I thought ruined the message of the poster. I took it down and put it in a box where I now found it thanks to the corona. It means you have time to rummage through cupboards and drawers and sometimes make interesting finds.".