Original Full-Length Portrait of Lenin; Oil on Canvas in Glazed Convex Frame, ca. 1920s-1930s

by Anonymous Artist

$850 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

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

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