Lenin and his wife lived in Islington while ... Islington Town Hall in the 1970s but was vandalised twice more when red paint was thrown over it. It became one of the symbols of what the press ...

The simplicity of the image recalls Soviet-era posters — art meant to galvanize and indoctrinate. Yet, Warhol subverts this tradition by isolating Lenin from the ideological clutter of his legacy.