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Perestroika

Design
1989 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A design for a poster showing the communist symbol of the hammer and sickle hatching from an egg.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitlePerestroika (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Preliminary pencil, ink and acrylic pigment on white board
Brief description
Design for a poster by Alexander Vorobyof, 'Perestroika', pencil, ink and acrylic on white board, 1989
Physical description
A design for a poster showing the communist symbol of the hammer and sickle hatching from an egg.
Dimensions
  • Height: 87.8cm
  • Width: 57.7cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'A Vorobyof' (Signed on the back in red ball-point pen)
  • (Lettered in acrylic pigment with the title in Latin)
Object history
This poster design has never been shown in the USSR.
Subjects depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Collection
Accession number
E.1857-1991

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Record createdMarch 2, 2009
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