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Japan Has Capitulated!

A work made of stencil.

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  • A work made of stencil.

Date:

September 22, 1945

Artist:

Pavel Sokolov-Skalya (Born Strel’nia, 1899; died Moscow, 1961)
Aleksei Ivanovich Mashistov

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pavel P. Sokolov-Skalia

Title

Japan Has Capitulated!

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

Now we celebrate a new victory, There is no salvation for the aggressor. All that is left from Samurai pride Are bubbles floating on the water.

Dimensions

165 × 87 cm (65 × 34 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.191

Extended information about this artwork

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