Help determine who?
 

Help someone please identify this portrait, and whether the picture is artistic value.

Judging from the second icon, a climber.

Start your search on icon, it can be someone known to the portrait.

Portrait of a climber
 

The man in the portrait is very similar to the outstanding Soviet climbers and sculptor Yevgeny Mikhailovich Abalakov (1907 -1948).

But not too old a man in the portrait for the 40-year-old man.

In those years, was often premature aging.

Life was hard.


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Hood.
value of painting, in general, does not represent, although written spravnenko.

There are also photos EM Abalakov 1947, you can compare.

Rather too Vitali.

Cyril Syzran,

As he looked in 40 years, I know, I saw his picture to 1947.

Alcove, perhaps you should try to find her son Eugene Abalakov and show a portrait of him. He is a public sculptor, wrote a book about his father, so it's real. Then fall off all the questions, and perhaps you will be able to resolve the issue with the sale, because portrait is primarily iconographic value.