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Prints and Drawings
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
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Artist: Nikolai Avvakumov, Russian, 1908–1945
Printer: 3-ia fabrika knigi “Krasnyi proletarii” tresta Poligrafkniga
Publisher: Iskusstvo, Moscow-Leningrad

…Ia vsegda gotov po prikazu Raboche-Krest’ianskogo Pravitel’stvo vystupit’ na zashchitu moei Rodiny… (…I am always prepared at the order of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government to come to the defence of my Motherland…)

1940

Color offset lithograph

sheet: 82.5 × 52 cm (32 1/2 × 20 1/2 in.)
The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos
2018.136.71
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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