The Gauleiter’s Trick, or a Futile Disguise

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Sergei N. Kostin

Title

The Gauleiter’s Trick, or a Futile Disguise

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

In order to escape revenge, The living scoundrel gets in his coffin. Changing his clothes, the bandit gets up Looking like a peaceful civilian. But the Fascist cannot trick us With his false mask Or his snow-white scarf. He will not escape retribution!

Dimensions

115 × 120 cm (45 5/16 × 47 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.92

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