It seems whether KA Somov?

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Сообщение от Jan

on the approval of the seller, this - the last self-portrait intravital Konstantin Andreevich Somov (no examination). Can you believe this? Signed - Cyrillic: "K. Somov" - and this is the main argument of opponents of the authenticity of the portrait. However, cardboard, soil and manner of writing is very similar to the manner of the great romance - this is in the oral consultation

Yes, it looks like. Look in the book of EV, Zhuravleva, Konstantin Somov, "Moscow" Art "1980.V end of the two self-portrait, 28 g. and 34 (in the mirror). It seems that other self-portraits, he also made "through the mirror, as if he was looking at another person (ie, using the second mirror), so sometimes the artist does seem to be more happened, because when we look directly, then because of specular see a little bit wrong ... Portrait of 28 g. (In the book) a young, but in the same turn and the entire left lower cheek and mustache fit, and a portrait of 34 g. already with the bald forehead, but there is visible cheek with the same, but the effort is folded slightly down. And the reception lighting laying shadows on the profile vyudu one, so it was easier to achieve the similarity, because uncomfortable draw ... The book also stated that there is a self-portrait, whose whereabouts are unknown.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

from one of his last self-portraits.
Self-portrait in a mirror. 1928, paper, pastel, 37.2x26.8
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Zhuravleva mentions it, but then lists a few more, there is a portrait of a pince-nez and another in a square mirror with a still life of things on the table, 34g.Umer KA Somov 6 May 1939. 70 th year of life. Perhaps he looked so. Signed and must be in Cyrillic, and it is normal modestly staged, as it was then adopted, without a bulging ...