On Berlin's "Avenue of Victories"

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pavel P. Sokolov-Skalia

Title

On Berlin's "Avenue of Victories"

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

Berlin raised its hands and shouted “Kaput!” Our tanks advance along the “Avenue of Victories”: Frederick is frightened and Bismarck trembles, And Hitler's shadow flees without a backward glance. And even the name “Avenue of Victories” has apparently Changed to the “Avenue of Kaput!”

Dimensions

165.5 × 86 cm (65 3/16 × 33 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.189

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