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Thunder and Lightning

A work made of stencil.

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  • A work made of stencil.

Date:

August 28, 1944

Artist:

Petr Ashotovich Sarkisian
(Born Moscow, 1922; died Moscow, 1970)
Vasilii Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach
(Born Moscow, 1898; died Moscow, 1949)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Petr A. Sarkisian

Title

Thunder and Lightning

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

Inscribed on the thunderbolt: News from the front The Berlin horizon Frowns ominously. The Fascist front cracks In scores of new places. The beast is cruelly frightened; His eyes roll back in his head. From the south, the east And the west a storm blows in.

Dimensions

181.7 × 86.3 cm (71 9/16 × 34 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.149

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