Ilja Repin - Portrait of the composer Modest Mussorgsky
Ilja Repin - Portrait of the composer Modest Mussorgsky, few days before the death of Mussorgsky [5th of march 1881]
Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery
The portrait of Musorgsky is one of Repin’s best works and also one of the best portraits in all of Russian art during the 1880s. It was painted 10 days before the composer’s death, in the hospital, over the course of four sessions, and, in the words of an eye-witness, “with every possible inconvenience; the painter did not even have an easel and he had to perch at a desk before which the ailing Musorgsky sat in an armchair.” The artist depicts the fatally ill man with unusual delicacy. The indeterminate background creates the illusion of open space. Musorgsky seemingly is depicted against a background of open sky and his gaze is far away. Repin declined to accept pay for the work and he contributed to the raising of a monument for the composer.
Source:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Modest_M%C3%BAsorgski,_por_Il...
Ilja Repin - Portrait of the composer Modest Mussorgsky
Ilja Repin - Portrait of the composer Modest Mussorgsky, few days before the death of Mussorgsky [5th of march 1881]
Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery
The portrait of Musorgsky is one of Repin’s best works and also one of the best portraits in all of Russian art during the 1880s. It was painted 10 days before the composer’s death, in the hospital, over the course of four sessions, and, in the words of an eye-witness, “with every possible inconvenience; the painter did not even have an easel and he had to perch at a desk before which the ailing Musorgsky sat in an armchair.” The artist depicts the fatally ill man with unusual delicacy. The indeterminate background creates the illusion of open space. Musorgsky seemingly is depicted against a background of open sky and his gaze is far away. Repin declined to accept pay for the work and he contributed to the raising of a monument for the composer.
Source:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Modest_M%C3%BAsorgski,_por_Il...