Sluzhiteli boga (The Servants of God) Artist: Yuri Trunev (Russian, born 1921)
Printer: Tipo-litografia "Khudozhhnik RSFSR"
Publisher: Izdatel'stvo "Khudozhnik RSFSR" (Soviet)

1961

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 16 3/4 × 22 1/16 in. (42.5 × 56 cm)

Credit Line

The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos

Accession Number

2018.136.320

Geography

Made in Leningrad, Soviet Union

Culture

Soviet, Leningrad

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Allan Chasanoff Collection, New York, to 2018; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Object/Work type

didactic art, lithographs, political art, posters, propaganda

Subject

Christian clergy Christianity communism devils (spirits) fires hell poems religion

Inscriptions

UR:\r\nThe servants of god of the century frightened men everywhere with their trial beyond the grave. \r\nSaving from the imaginary dangers of this, they stuff their purses with other people's coins.\r\nAnd often on this money with a laugh they commit to sinful pleasures in every way.\r\nIf there is hell for sinners on our planet, there these sinners would have been pleased. \r\nSo here, then- for once in life it's a nuisance:\r\nWhat a shame, that there is neither god, nor hell! \r\n\r\nLL:\r\nMilitant Pencil - "Artist of the RSFSR" Press\r\nartist: Y. Trunev \r\npoem: V. Alekseev\r\nLR: [printing information]

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