[after Ilya Repin.] Will. Henderson [pencil signature.]
Published 1926 by the Museum Galleries, 69 Shorts Gardens, London WC. Copyright.
Colour-printed photogravure on india. 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"), Printsellers' blind stamp, with sheet of letterpress biography.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina', from Il'ya Repin's 1901 full-length portrait of Tolstoy, barefooted (St Petersburg, State Museum), cropping the composition to the sitter's upper body. Repin (1844-1930), the foremost exponent of the late 19th century Russian Realist style, first met Tolstoy in 1880 and produced several portraits of him.
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