You Reap What You Sow

Prints and Drawings

April 25, 1944

Pavel Sokolov-Skalya
(Born Strel’nia, 1899; died Moscow, 1961)
Irina Petrova
(Birth and death dates unknown)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pavel P. Sokolov-Skalia
Title: You Reap What You Sow
Place: Russia (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1944
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: The fascist villain Is feverish and trembling The collective farmer sows Oats and wheat and rye. In the fields, under the hot sun Our harvest will rise up. But Hitler sowed war, And he will reap his death.
Dimensions: 140.7 × 121 cm (55 7/16 × 47 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.177

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