Thunder and Lightning

Prints and Drawings

August 28, 1944

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

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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