◇ After
The canonical frontal bust portrait of Vladimir Lenin (Soviet state portrait photograph) · unattributed Soviet state photographer
The head is unchanged: bald domed crown, hair only at the temples, the moustache running into a short goatee, stiff collar and red tie. A green third eye burns on the forehead, a red star sits lower right.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
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