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Ilya Repin
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–1888)
1884
Russian author Vsevolod Garshin specialized in short stories expressing his pacifist beliefs, love of beauty, and aversion to evil. In the early 1880s he became friends with Repin, a leading progressive painter who shared his concern for contemporary political and social problems. This portrait is one of several that Repin made of Russian artists and intellectuals following his return from study in France, as he sought a more national tenor in his work. Four years after it was created, Garshin, scarred by the suicides of his father and brother and his own mental illness, threw himself down a stairwell and died. (Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
- License:
- All rights reserved by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exhibited on USEUM for Scholarly use.
- For more:
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437442
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