WWI SOVIET PROPAGANDA: V. LENIN PLANE GAS MASK PAINTING

Artist Unknown
20th Century
American
WW1 SOVIET PROPAGANDA: V. LENIN, PLANE, GAS MASK GENRE
Un-signed: Titled: V. Lenin (in white pigment) 16 x 23 - to verso.
Tempera/Plaster on Masonite
16.25 x 23 inches.


CONDITION REPORT:
Very good to excellent; 100% original surface paint. Frame rubbing, Dirt & Grime. No restoration detected under UV light.

FRAME: Housed in its original hand carved gilt wood molded American stylized frame.

Lot Note(s): This is absolutely the finest example of a Soviet era propaganda image depicting WW1 airplanes, Soldiers in gas masks, Vladimir Lenin, Gothic church landscape scene, A younger gentleman who appears to be protecting the much older Vladimir Lenin. ? Ever created!

ADDITIONAL NOTES: This painting is of gem A++++ quality, obviously a very talented artist created this piece. We presume; the American artist is if course listed however our specialists have yet to be able to identify the artist: You will not find another Soviet era example of this quality anytime soon!

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 ? 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the wider Soviet Union, became a one-party Marxist?Leninist state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism.

Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism. The function of the Leninist vanguard party is to provide the working classes with the political consciousness (education and organisation) and revolutionary leadership necessary to depose capitalism in the Russian Empire (1721?1917). Leninist revolutionary leadership is based upon The Communist Manifesto (1848) identifying the communist party as 'the most advanced and resolute section of the working class parties of every country; that section which pushes forward all others.' As the vanguard party, the Bolsheviks viewed history through the theoretical framework of dialectical materialism, which sanctioned political commitment to the successful overthrow of capitalism, and then to instituting socialism; and, as the revolutionary national government, to realize the socio-economic transition by all means.

Fair to good condition; un-lined canvas; period stretcher, period frame; minor areas of loss, mostly on the bottom edge. (See images).PLEASE NOTE: The signature & date are absolutely 100% visible and correct. The signature shows: 30% of the original black pigment. Nonetheless we will give a lifetime guarantee on the authenticity of this work. FWIW: Housed in its original hand carved oak wooden frame with parcel gilt decorative fillet.