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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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