Robert Engle
Visitor from the Kremlin, Russia, Before Vladimir Putin - Cover of Newsweek, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan - a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary, 1959
Gouache
11 1/2 × 11 1/2 in / 29.2 × 29.2 cm
$ 17,000.00
The work is in excellent condition and meticulously rendered in a photo-realistic style. It showcases the artist's high-level sense of design. Newsweek could hire any artist in the world. The...
The work is in excellent condition and meticulously rendered in a photo-realistic style. It showcases the artist's high-level sense of design. Newsweek could hire any artist in the world. The fact that Robert Engle was chosen to do their prized cover was a testament to Engle's talent. It depicts a portrait of the not-so-friendly looking communist official, framed by the ramparts of the Kremlin. A bold-looking Soviet Union's Red Star looms above and makes a graphic statement about Cold War tensions. The subject is Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the head of state of the Soviet Union. Matted but Unframed br Cover of Newsweek, Visitor from the Kremlin, January 12, 1959