The Victory Document

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Nikolai F. Denisovskii

Title

The Victory Document

Place

Russia (Artist's nationality:)

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1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

DECLARATION Of the defeat of Germany And the seizure Of supreme power With relation to Germany By the governments Of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, The United Kingdom, The United States of America And the Provisional Government Of the French Republic. The Soviet people received the declaration with pleasure, as a witness to the fact that the efforts and sacrifices made at the altar of the Fatherland were not in vain.

Dimensions

123.8 × 119.3 cm (48 3/4 × 47 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.81

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