Coca-Cola, It's The Real Thing, Lenin"

Symbols of Century, 1982

by A. Kosolapov ©1982

Paper Size:    18" x 24"

Image Size:  12.5" x 20"

Printed in US c. 1982

New,Unused

Rare and Out-Of-Print

Description:   Poster was published c 's.1980's based on Original Art by A. Kosolapov, Russian born artist.  The original oil painting was created in 1980's, and is regarded as an important example of contemporary post-Soviet Russian art.   A. Kosolapov is an active artist residing in NYC. 

This poster was printed by the artist using a photographic printing process. It is not an offset litho, therefore it does not have the depth of color of an offset printing.   The poster was printed in the late 1980's and was trademarked by the artist A. Kosolapov. The poster is a first printing, and only printing of his artwork, it has never been re-published.

The poster is in Mint (M) condition, unused,  kept in Gallery storage 

Kosolapov's Lenin Coca-Cola image was the focus of a law suit brought against him for using the soft drink logo unlawfully. He fought this lawsuit on the basis of the familiar image of Coca cola being within the public domain and therefore accessible to an artist for his/her creative purposes.  Kosolapov asserts that one can look at the design from the right and see Lenin as a sponsor of Coca-Cola or look from the left and see Coca-Cola as Lenin's sponsor.  Alexander Kosolapov won the lawsuit. He said his work celebrates the "heritage of socialist realism".

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