Parisian Parade

Prints and Drawings

August 17, 1942

Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov
(Born St. Petersburg, 1889; died Moscow [?], 1942)
Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak
(Born Voronezh, 1887; died Moscow, 1964)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Nikolai E. Radlov
Title: Parisian Parade
Place: Russia (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1942
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: “SS” in Russian stands for “son of a bitch." And recently, For prestige, Berlin paraded its fierce SS-men, Along the streets of Paris. And that same day The German Great Dane Guarding France Began to bark more fiercely, Than before, In order to be heard On the English Channel: “Woof! Woof! Our Parisian parade Lasted two hours straight!” A dirty lapdog named Fifi From the agency HAVAS-OFI [the French news agency] Squealed in response: “Parade, yes, parade! Here in Paris!" And to this barking of fascist hounds Others responded from the distance: “The parade lasted a hundred hours!” Two small dogs yelped In Sofia. Inscribed on the map: Great Britain Alarmed The dogs’ chorus Is still not Silent. But why are the dogs barking? Apparently, they’re trying to scare someone. And, as is always The case with dogs, They only end up Scaring themselves.
Dimensions: 251.8 × 100 cm (99 3/16 × 39 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.143

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