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The Baltics Are Liberated!

A work made of stencil.

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  • A work made of stencil.

Date:

November 16, 1944

Artist:

Mikhail Mikhailovich Solov’ev
(Born Moscow, 1905; died Moscow, 1990)
Vasilii Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach
(Born Moscow, 1898; died Moscow, 1949)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Mikhail M. Solov'ev

Title

The Baltics Are Liberated!

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

Throwing off the chains of dismal German captivity, Again the Baltics live free! Flourish again in your native, Soviet family, Sisters! – Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania! With the Red Army, the sun has returned Driving away the gloom and horror of the black years. From all of the great Motherland, greetings To the Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians!

Dimensions

170.7 × 86.4 cm (67 1/4 × 34 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.199

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