A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...

Soviet Union founder Lenin is depicted in a huge portrait A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction.

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

Birch first met the collaborative art duo in 1979 at the Blitz ... being "woefully slow at packing up the previous exhibition on Lenin postage stamps". Birch evokes not only the "fog-like Soviet ...