New Year's Fortune-Telling

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Petr A. Sarkisian

Title

New Year's Fortune-Telling

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in:)

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Original 1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

Hitler, overcome with fear, Did fortune-telling at the New Year. He sits down, mumbles “Forty-Five, What will it mean for me?" He melted wax on the platter. A shadow was cast upon the wall. “What is it? What is it? Oh! A noose! For me?” “For me!” he cried like one possessed. “Here… a noose … above my head! Forty-five, forty-five – The year of fateful retribution!”

Dimensions

182.5 × 80.1 cm (71 7/8 × 31 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.153

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