Dve ruki (Two Hands), from the series Agit-plakat Artist: Nikolai Denisovsky (Russian, 1901–1981)
Printer: Masterskaia agitplakata moskovskogo otdeleniia khudozhestvennogo fonda RSFSR
Publisher: Soiuza khudozhnikov SSSR i moskovskogo otdeleniia soiuza khudozhnikov SSSR

ca. 1960

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Gouache sketch with graphite underdrawing on half-cardboard

Dimensions

sheet: 59 × 31 1/2 in. (149.86 × 80.01 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2018.136.973

Geography

Made in Moscow, Russia

Culture

Soviet, Moscow

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, political art, posters, propaganda

Subject

communism

Inscriptions

Where there is great need, in brotherly assistance, the laboring hand of Moscow comes to help, and it does not help for the sake of profit. \r\nAnd this is not at the case for the hand which rummages in someone else's wallet- the hand of the Washington "uncle"!\r\n(building is labeled: oil)\r\nUL: Agitplakat no. 672\r\nFrom the Union of Artists of the USSR and the Moscow Branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR\r\nLL: artist: N. Denisovsky\r\ncenter: Agitplakat Studio of the Moscow branch of the Arts Foundation of the RSFSR\r\nLR: text: Emile Krotky

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