Captured!

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Vladimir V. Lebedev

Title

Captured!

Place

Russia (Artist's nationality)

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1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

To the north of Zvenigorodka and Shpola, our troops have continued to battle to destroy a surrounded enemy force. (From an operational communiqué of February 15, 1944) The wild beast won’t escape death: All escape routes are cut off. The bloodthirsty wolf has been ensnared It’s our duty to finish him off.

Dimensions

170.5 × 86.2 cm (67 3/16 × 33 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.118

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