An Attempt Using Unfit Means

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Kukryniksy

Title

An Attempt Using Unfit Means

Place

Russia (Artist's nationality:)

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Original 1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

The Fascist bosses are making desperate attempts to introduce discord into the camp of the anti-Hitler coalition and thus prolong the war. (From an edict of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Comrade J. Stalin, February 23, 1944).

Dimensions

157.5 × 85 cm (62 1/16 × 33 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.100

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