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Russian Summer Offensive.
This drawing, showing Nazi soldiers retreating from the attacking Russian soldiers, is captioned "[Russian Summer Offensive] 'But the Fuehrer said, Russia was a hot spot only in winter!'..." This work was first published as an unshaded line drawing in P.M., a New York daily newspaper, August 15, 1943, on page 2; later it appeared in its present pencil-shaded state in Arthur Szyk's famous second book of war satires Ink & Blood, A Book of Drawings, as plate XXXIII.
Provenance: Mrs. Arthur Szyk Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 11, 1965. Lot 6a.
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Don't get excited |
And We Will Finish the Job
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Hello |
Je Maintiedrais |
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War of Nerfs! |
Shortage
Supreme Command |
Tulagi |
General Vlasov |
Wayside Shrine
Illuminations |
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