What Is His Last Name?

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Petr A. Sarkisian

Title

What Is His Last Name?

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.

1943

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

Epigraph: As long as I am minister of aviation, not one bomb will be dropped over Germany. If that’s not true, then my name isn’t Goering, but Meier. (From a speech by Goering) The Germans feel the heat of all these bombs. Everyone sees: not just once, not just twice, The minister's words are tarnished And have come to nothing. Those who believed Goering Have now found out with him That Goering was lying, Not like Meier, but like a snake.

Dimensions

227 × 54 cm (89 3/8 × 21 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.145

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