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Wilhelm's Merry-Go-Round

Print
1914 (made)
Artist/Maker
Typolithography S. Muharsky (printer)
Kasimir Malevich (maker)
Place of origin
Russia (made)

General Description: Russian satirical broadsheet showing the defeat of the German army under Kaiser Wilhelm II, outside Paris. Printed by S.Mouharsky and published by Lubok of Today, Moscow, 1914. Signed with the artist's initials KM. Captioned with title, satirical verse and lettered with details of printing and publication.

Russian satirical broadsheet showing the defeat of the German army under Kaiser Wilhelm II, outside Paris. Signed with the artist's initials KM. Captioned with title, satirical verse and lettered with details of printing and publication.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleWilhelm's Merry-Go-Round
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Colour Lithography
Physical description
General Description: Russian satirical broadsheet showing the defeat of the German army under Kaiser Wilhelm II, outside Paris. Printed by S.Mouharsky and published by Lubok of Today, Moscow, 1914. Signed with the artist's initials KM. Captioned with title, satirical verse and lettered with details of printing and publication.

Russian satirical broadsheet showing the defeat of the German army under Kaiser Wilhelm II, outside Paris. Signed with the artist's initials KM. Captioned with title, satirical verse and lettered with details of printing and publication.
Dimensions
  • Height: 37.6cm
  • Width: 55.9cm
37.6 x 55.9 cm
Object history
The verse reads: Outside Paris/ is bing thrashed/ While I run around in circles/ doing nothing. Lubok of Today was only published from August-November 1914. Other sheets in this series are E.397-99, 401-1988 [see Catalogue of PRINTS: MAYAKOVKSY, MALEVICH and MALEVICH, possibly by]
Production
Printed by S.Mouharsky and published by Lubok of Today, Moscow.
Bibliographic references
  • Donald Karshan: Malevich: The Graphic Work 1913-30. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1975
  • Rudenstine, Angelica Zander: The George Costakis Collection, New York, 1981, cat.no. 960, illus. [on the Lubok of Today] Vasilii Ratkin 'Malevich's Toy-Box War' in Art and Design, Dec.1986, pp 45-7.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.400-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
Record URL
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