Title

Portrait of the Composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky', 1881, (1965).

Caption

'Portrait of the Composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky', 1881, (1965). Russian composer Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839-1881), painted in hospital 10 days before his death. 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." Repin declined to accept payment for the work and he contributed to the raising of a monument for the composer. Painting in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]

Date

1965

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F10_359

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,1Mb (2,0Mb) / 14,0in x 17,3in / 4194 x 5178 (300dpi)

Keywords

oil portrait people male man men health hospital music arts painting country body bodies guy beard color death dying illness location century composer Russia Russian ill bearded concept Sixties Colour Realism 19th century UNKEMPT 1960s 20th century nineteenth century The Print Collector artistic movement the body portrait oil Il'ya Repin Ilya Repin Ilya Efimovic Repin Ilya Efimovich Repin Modest Ilya E Repin Repin Il'ya Repin Ilya Efimovich Modest Mussorgsky Mussorgsky Vladimir Fiala Fiala Vladimir Artia Ilya Yefimovich Repin Repin Ilya Yefimovich Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Modest Petrovic Musorgskij Musorgsky Modest Musorgsky Musorgskij Modest Petrovic Modest Petrovich