Help evaluate a portrait of Ilya Repin

[Seriy]

if copied, it is certainly not the portrait.

[redbor]

Сообщение от Seriy

if copied,

What?
Could not copy, but from life to write about?
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If this portrait is not, then a copy of it copied.

If anything - did not copy and redraw it with the

(Probably in 1947-49gg, while studying at the LCA, it is by the way, impressive)

It is not a portrait.
a self-portrait.
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[Seriy]

redbor, could write to the pictures, could make a compilation , could simply out of my head , that the imagination of the artist not? Picasso, for example, generally painted portraits of the head - e tonnes for five minutes looking at the man , and then people do it the next few years was not needed, could work out of my head .
Just in Repin's self-portrait is the key details of the attack , which should not neglect the copyist , as discussed by them if it had not seen before.

[redbor]

Сообщение от Seriy; 2136941"

could not just out of my head , that the imagination of the artist not?

Of course he could. Imagined portrait of Repin and ready ! <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

Сообщение от Seriy; 2136941"

Picasso, for example, generally painted portraits of the head - e tonnes for five minutes looking at the man , and then people do it the next few years was not needed, could work out of my head .

Wow! And what have Abram Rabkin ?
When he saw Repin ? theoretically could, but only in the 5 years of age <! - ~ 1 ~ ->
But then, Repin was already 85 . How can a little young to remember Rabkin ? . <! - ~ 1 ~ ->
Perhaps , after all Rabkin rubbings from this self-portrait , let alone how it was <! - ~ 10 ->
Perhaps at the beginning of training on the artist