Vase with Lenin’s portrait
1950-
The 1950s
Uncolored glass with milk coloring, cutting, silicate printing
Height 26 cm
The portrait on the vase is one of the most popular in the iconography of Lenin. It is a famous photograph taken by P.A.Otsup in Moscow on October 16, 1918, and first published on the front page of the Pravda newspaper (No. 194) on August 30, 1923. This photograph became a sort of a textbook portrait of the Russian leader that was actively reproduced in the press and in different works of decorative and applied art. (Lenin. Collection of Photographs and Film Frames. Vol. I, Moscow, 1970, p. 73)