Two Faces

Prints and Drawings

February 12, 1944

Sergei Nikolaevich Kostin
(Born Moscow, 1896; died Moscow, 1968)
Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak
(Born Voronezh, 1887; died Moscow, 1964)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Sergei N. Kostin
Title: Two Faces
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.: 1944
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: Inscribed at the top center of the image: Finland The White Finn has two faces, And don’t you believe him: Facing west he is a lamb, Facing east he is a beast!
Dimensions: 136.5 × 119.2 cm (53 3/4 × 46 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.84

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