Russian Pictures

ILYA EFIMOVICH REPIN | Portrait of Anatoly Fedorovich Koni

Auction Closed

June 4, 12:47 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

ILYA EFIMOVICH REPIN

1844-1930

Portrait of Anatoly Fedorovich Koni

signed in Cyrillic and dated 29 yanv. 97 t.r. and titled in Cyrillic in another hand along the bottom edge; further bearing an authentication by Vera Repina dated 1937 on the reverse

pencil on paper

33.5 by 24cm, 13¼ by 9½in.

Koni was a prominent judge and leading liberal figure in Russia. The present lot is a study for Repin's 1898 portrait of him.