Original Full-Length Portrait of Lenin; Oil on Canvas in Glazed Convex Frame, ca. 1920s-1930s
Np.,n.d. Original oil portrait of Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin (aka Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, 1870-1924). Unsigned; placed into carved, glazed convex frame to mimic a reverse-painting on glass. Not examined out of frame; sight condition excellent. Frame shows some damage to gesso at borders, Very Good.
A well-executed folk-art portrait of Lenin, standing before a background of industrial plants, a hydroelectric dam (possibly the Dnieper) and a railway locomotive. Undated, but if the dam pictured is indeed intended to be the Dnieper, then presumably after 1930 – which tracks, as the style is highly evocative of the decade of the Thirties and popular Five Year Plan propaganda.
Price: $850.00