Created in the final year of his life, Andy Warhol’s Lenin (F&S II.402) is a striking departure from his earlier celebrity portraits. Based on a 1930s photograph of Vladimir Lenin, the print is austere and pared back, reducing the revolutionary leader to a graphic emblem of political authority. The background is rendered as a single, unmodulated field, forcing attention onto Lenin’s face and upraised hand—a classic pose of ideological command.

Warhol, who had built his career by transforming media-saturated icons into objects of visual consumption, here applies the same silkscreen technique to a figure of historical and political gravity. Lenin is neither parody nor tribute; it is an image presented for its cultural power, filtered through Warhol’s neutral, process-driven lens.

This screen print was issued in an edition of 120, signed and numbered in pencil lower right. It is often seen as a counterpoint to Warhol’s Hammer and Sickle series and a continuation of his late interest in the iconography of power and propaganda.

Lenin is offered by Coskun Fine Art in excellent condition, with full authentication and provenance available on request.