The Last Breath , 2023
Giclee Print on Archival Cotton Rag Paper
22 x 24
in
Edition of 50
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The Last Breath
Limited edition of prints from the original 1984 drawing
The Last Breath aka Kaytn tells the story of the hundreds of Polish intellectuals who were executed at night during WWII in the Katyn Forest. The Communist (part hyena, part octopus) is executing the "God's Eagle" (defender of the country), by a hammer blow to the head and a revolver shot to the brain.
The predator has entwined the victim with his octopus legs which also stretch out over the prostrate body of Europe, who can only witness the atrocities, being shackled herself. At the time, before the fall of the Berlin wall, the official opinion was that the Nazis, had been the executors. But Szukalski knew all along that it had been the "vile, never to be trusted" Communist Russians.
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