176 ART & LANGUAGE Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the style of Jackson Pollock VII, 1980 Enamel paint on canvas mounted to board. 105 × 100 cm (41 3/8 × 39 3/8 in). Signed, titled, dated ‘Michael Baldwin Mel Ramsden 1980 Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the style of Jackson Pollock VII’ and stamped ‘Art & Language’ on the reverse.
Estimate £10,000–15,000 $15,500–23,200 €11,900–17,800 ♠ PROVENANCE Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid EXHIBITED Leeds, University Gallery, Portraits of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock,
1980; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1980; Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, The British Art Show, 1985; London, Waddington Gallery/Karsten Schubert Gallery, From Here, 1995
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