An Inglorious End

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Petr M. Shukhmin

Title

An Inglorious End

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

In the picture, Marshal Zhukov Looks stern. “Are the Germans here?” “They’re awaiting orders.” “Let them come in!” The Germans – three, of the highest rank, For the reasons everybody knows Grimly scratch out with their pens. Having lost the war, in Berlin They have added their signature, “Kaput!”

Dimensions

146 × 123.5 cm (57 1/2 × 48 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.165

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