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[GUEVARA, Che (1928–1967)]. DAVIS, Paul (b. 1938), designer. The Spirit of Che lives in the new Evergreen! Circa 1960s. Lithograph in colors (44 ½ x 30”). “After his death in October of 1967, the Evergreen Review – a leftist journal based in NYC – hired the designer Paul Davis to create both this poster and the cover of their February 1968 magazine as a tribute to the Revolutionary. While Davis had seen the now iconic photo of Che by Alberto Korda, American audiences had not yet been exposed en masse to the image, making this the first time the US public would see Che in this saint-like pose. After being plastered on walls around the city, many of the posters were defaced. On July 26, 1968, the offices of Grove Press – publisher of the Evergreen Review – at 64 University Place were bombed with a grenade by anti-Castro Cubans in retaliation for Davis’s design” (Poster House). Linen backed. Several professional repairs including a vertical closed tear to image. B.