Lenin, 1986

Incontrovertibly arresting in its stunning immediacy and indelibly charged imagery, Andy Warhol’s Lenin series commands our full attention with the sheer weight of its historic import and art historical potency. As conceptual successor to the artist’s earlier Hammer and Sickle and Mao series of the 1970s, the present work persists as an icon of one of the … Continue reading Lenin, 1986