Lot Essay
A study for the oil portrait of the cellist A.V. Verzhbilovich (1850-1911) painted in 1895, until 1917 in the Riabuzhinskii collection and now in the Russian Museum at St. Petersburg. See G. Sternin and others, Ilya Repin: Painting; graphic Arts, (Leningrad, 1985), no.238, colour plate 164.