Grabar I. Repin. Monograph in two volumes.

Grabar I. Repin. Monograph in two volumes.
M. IZOGIZ. 1937 286, 313 p., Fig. Hardcover, size 25 x 34 cm. Good condition. In both volumes there are drop-down notebooks and pages, under the weight of the volumes cracks were formed in the blocks, in the first volume one color insert-illustration was lost.

It is bound in solid fabric with gold-embossed letters. Volume 1. Contains basic biographical information and covers the material up to the first works of the period of Repin's heyday., Volume 2. Dedicated to the period "from the first portraits of the heyday" to the last years of the artist's life. The publication is richly illustrated. A monograph of one of the founders of Soviet art studies, academician I. E. Grabar, on the work of Repin was published in 1937 and has long been a bibliographic rarity. Despite the fact that since then many articles, albums and monographs about Repin have been published, Grabar's work has not lost its significance and today the characteristics given by him Are still as sharp, the artistic analyses made with the same bone and skill, and the overall picture of the artistic life of that era is still as bright. The Repin theme occupies an important place in Grabar's scientific heritage. About half a century he devoted to studying the work of his teacher and friend, a remarkable master of Russian realistic painting. Grabar in this book created a genre of creative biography that combines a lively narrative of the childhood, years of study and creative maturity of the great master with the thoroughness of scientific research, the subtlety of aesthetic assessments and a broad historical and artistic sketch of Russian culture in the second half of the XIX–early XX century.