A Terrible Ghost

Prints and Drawings

February 4, 1944

Boris Nikolaevich Shirokorad
(Born Belgorod region of Kursk, 1907; died 1988)
Sergei Dmitrievich Spasskii
(Born Kiev, 1898; died near Iaroslavl, 1956)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Boris Nikolaevich Shirokorad
Title: A Terrible Ghost
Place: Soviet Union (Object made in)
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.: Original 1944
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: February 2 is the anniversary of the defeat of the German Fascist forces at Stalingrad. Hitler can’t sleep. Through the darkness A skeleton appears to him. Goosebumps rise on his skin. “Remember, Hitler, Stalingrad! We died there a year ago – Soon the same will happen to you!”
Dimensions: 167 × 86.9 cm (65 3/4 × 34 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.161

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