Derailed!

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Nikolai F. Denisovskii

Title

Derailed!

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 on the sign on the station: Chudovo Inscribed on the road sign: Moscow. Leningrad Near Chudovo, our fierce and stubborn enemy Attempted to save his last stronghold “Will we sweep the enemy or not from our path?” Could there even be a question! The enemy did not have time to come to his senses When he found himself derailed! “For the Fascist scoundrels the clearest And inevitable path is: into the ditch!”

Dimensions

175.2 × 85.9 cm (69 × 33 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.76

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