TOLSTOY | photograph signed, 1909

TOLSTOY, LEO

POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED IN RUSSIAN AND IN ENGLISH,

inscribed on the image in black ink ("Lev Tolstoy / Leo Tolstoy / 1909.17 April."),

13.6 x 8.7cm, a printed English postcard (Rotary Photographic Series, no.2338), 17 April 1909

This image shows the great writer in a peasant shirt of coarse cloth, reflecting the asceticism of his later years, when he altered his dress to express his spiritual identification with the common people. 

PROVENANCE:

From the Jerome Shochet Collection, Christie's New York, 20 May 1994, lot 106; Sotheby's 29 November 1985, lot 397

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