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Prints and Drawings
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
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Artist: I. Sychev, Soviet
Printer: Ordena Lenina tipografiia gazety “Pravda” imeni V.I. Lenina
Publisher: Plakat Krokodila

Odin—v nadezhde na Il’iu; drugoi smeetsia:—sam pol’iu! (One waits in hope of Elijah, while the other laughs and says, “I’ll water it myself”)

1965

Color offset lithograph

sheet: 46 × 59.5 cm (18 1/8 × 23 7/16 in.)
The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos
2018.136.352
Geography: 
Made in Moscow, Russia
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Soviet, Moscow
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Prints - Posters
Provenance: 

Allan Chasanoff Collection, New York, to 2018; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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