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John Keane
Fear No. 59744
Fear No. 59744, 2012, Oil/Linen, 200 x 150cm
The
painting is based on an NKVD (soviet secret police) mugshot of Grigory
Zinoviev, after he was arrested. He had been an original member of the
Soviet politburo and an ally of Lenin. Having been an architect of the
Bolshevik terror he ultimately fell victim to it. He was chief defendant in
Stalin’s infamous show trials of 1936, after which he was summarily executed.
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