A drunk man in Russia likened to a pig: his silhouette is swinish and he is licked by a pig when he lies dead drunk with vodka. Watercolour, 195-.

Date:
[between 1950 and 1959?]
Reference:
537106i
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A drunk man in Russia likened to a pig: his silhouette is swinish and he is licked by a pig when he lies dead drunk with vodka. Watercolour, 195-. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Moscow], [between 1950 and 1959?]

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1 drawing : watercolour ; sheet 81.5 x 57 cm

Lettering

Teni proshlogo omrachayut nashe nastoyashchee. I pozoryat zhe nashe svinoe zvanie podobiye lyudi. Translation of lettering: Shadows of the past cloud our present. Our swine dignity has been offended by such humans.

Notes

With: two other similar works (this catalogue nos. 537105i, 537107i)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 537106i

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