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The Hour Approaches

A work made of stencil.

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  • A work made of stencil.

Date:

May 26, 1944

Artist:

Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh
(Born Tomsk, 1890; died Moscow, 1962)
Dem’ian Bednyi
(Born Gubovka, 1883; died Moscow, 1945)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Mikhail M. Cheremnykh

Title

The Hour Approaches

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.

1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

From a ruthless awesome punishment He will not escape, the German octopus. Blows threaten the monster: Now here, now there.

Dimensions

131.6 × 104 cm (51 13/16 × 41 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.69

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