Queue for Bread, Blockade series
Print
1956 (made)
1956 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
This linocut comes from a series depicting scenes from the siege of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) by the German Army during the Second World War. The siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944 and the artist, Andrei Ushin, was 14 when it began and 17 when it ended.
Ushin’s images are probably based on drawings made at the time or from memory. This one depicts queues for bread. The images were used to illustrate a volume of poems by Yuri Voponov with the title Metronom.
Ushin’s images are probably based on drawings made at the time or from memory. This one depicts queues for bread. The images were used to illustrate a volume of poems by Yuri Voponov with the title Metronom.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Queue for Bread, Blockade series (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Linocut on paper |
| Brief description | Lino-cut snowy scene of group of people outside a building, on which a red flag is flying, Andrei Ushin, Russia, 1956 |
| Physical description | Lino-cut on paper, of a snowy scene with crowd of figures outside a building, a red flag waving from a pole at the side of the building |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed in pencil in the artist's hand in cyrillic script below the image: to the left: with title, including the date 1941; to the right: signature and the date [19]56 (The date 1941 is part of the title) |
| Credit line | Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund |
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| Place depicted | |
| Summary | This linocut comes from a series depicting scenes from the siege of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) by the German Army during the Second World War. The siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944 and the artist, Andrei Ushin, was 14 when it began and 17 when it ended. Ushin’s images are probably based on drawings made at the time or from memory. This one depicts queues for bread. The images were used to illustrate a volume of poems by Yuri Voponov with the title Metronom. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1058-2003 |
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| Record created | June 16, 2004 |
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