Lenin oil painting
1930's / 1950's Lenin portrait. Oil painting on canvas. 82cm x 65.5cm. (32.3" x 25.8"). Need few restoration on lower part. I will have this job done before to send the painting.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system. As a politician, Vladimir Lenin was a persuasive orator, as a political scientist his extensive theoretic and philosophical developments of Marxism produced Leninism, the pragmatic Russian application of Marxism. He was also named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.