A Terrible Ghost

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Boris Nikolaevich Shirokorad

Title

A Terrible Ghost

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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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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