Under the Sultry Sky of Argentina

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pavel P. Sokolov-Skalia

Title

Under the Sultry Sky of Argentina

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

What should we think of such a picture? What meaning’s in it? We understand: In far-away, sultry Argentina A den of thieves has been established! Here with his loot there hurries The Fascist scoundrel and bandit. And the Argentine accepts The bandit’s baggage as a gift.

Dimensions

173.5 × 85 cm (68 5/16 × 33 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.185

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