Msti za gore naroda! (Revenge for the People's Grief!) Yale University Art Gallery

1943

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Medium: Color lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 17 15/16 × 23 7/16 in. (45.5 × 59.5 cm)
Credit Line: The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos
Accession Number: 2018.136.93
Geography: Made in Moscow, Russia
Culture: Soviet, Moscow
Period: 20th century
Classification: Posters
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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, lithography, paper (fiber product), political art, posters, propaganda

Subject

World War II, communism, maternity, mothers, wars, women

Inscriptions

poem by Vera Inber:
Son, I carried you on my breast,
I am proud of you, loving,
And with all my motherly strength
I beseech you now.

Beat the enemy! Over your head
Flies the silk Russian banner
Every German you kill
Is a debt repaid to the Motherland.

Beat the enemy! With red-hot metal
Turn him into ash and smoke
So that I may proudly cry out:
"This was done by my son!"

Beat the enemy! So that he is depleted,
So that he is drowned in blood,
So that your blow is equal in strength
To all of my maternal love.

LL: artist: Victor Ivanov
100,000 copies printed
LC: "ART" State Publisher, Moscow & Leningrad, 1943
[very faded margin information]

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