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“I Os Shcho” [“And Here it Got Really Ugly.”]

Auction 75 · Lot 86

“I Os Shcho” [“And Here it Got Really Ugly.”]

Estimate
$1,500–$2,000
Hammer price
$2,250

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(SOVIET UNION)

Place

c. 1937

Description

Text in Ukrainian.

summary

A gleeful Jewish figure is seen punching through Stalin’s 1936 USSR Constitution, specifically Article 3, which states: “All power in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic belongs to the working people of town and country.” The Constitution itself is depicted with numerous Stars-of-David.
30 x 23 inches (76.2 x 58.4 cm). Linen-backed (upper portion soiled).
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