About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Sergei N. Kostin
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Title
- "Neutral" Franco
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Place
- Soviet Union (Object made in:)
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Date
- 1944
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Medium
- Stencil
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Inscriptions
- German airplanes arrive in Spain filled with Hitlerites seeking refuge from their country. (From the newspapers) Inscription on Franco's coat: Neutrality “Throwing on his coat, hiding his guitar,” Don Franco sings about neutrality. While behind his coat, in the evening dusk, The German murderer hides from his woes. The Spanish brunette puts all his passion Into his long, deceitful song. While the Germans escape to Argentina, Don Franco sings of neutrality.
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Dimensions
- 181 × 86 cm (71 5/16 × 33 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
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Reference Number
- 2010.88
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