It seems whether KA Somov?

[Jan]

Many thanks to everyone who takes part in the debate initiated by me.
I consider it necessary to complement my original post some details associated with this picture. They may have something to clarify and distinguished colleagues will make any more comments.
Painting - without a frame and stretcher, oil on canvas, of course. Canvas size - 53h61; image size - 44h53. Along the perimeter of the canvas - the marks of the nails, the characteristic "residual" tension and straight folds in the places where the fits to the edges of the canvas stretcher. The paint layer - dense, with more than a dozen horizontal cracking (cracelures in the usual sense, it is not called), clearly acting on a break. The picture is damaged: in the lower left corner, and partly to the left edge of the image crumbled to the ground-based paint because of the inflection point (I think the picture was lying in a foot, and angle slightly favored the perimeter of the foot). Above, on either side of the head depicted a character (in the forehead and neck) - Two rough cutting holes approximately 2 and 3 mm. That have arisen, no doubt because of the attempts to erase the inscription on the back of the canvas. The inscription was made by something blue (in indelible ink?), Not read, can be very difficult to disassemble only the individual letters (Cyrillic, the printed pattern) - "P. FTAP ... L ... ", but for the reliability of a reading, I can not answer. The reverse side of the canvas - "izabellinogo color, with dark transverse trace in the upper part of the removal of the notorious inscription, a few dark spots and stands out as the watermark, outline of the figure. According to preliminary estimates of specialists, with whom I consulted, the picture without ponovleny, could be written in 20-40 years., Signature - is done on a dry layer, but, as claimed, not later than the origin.
In addition to the current debate raises questions: what is the essence of the artist's conception (if it is not Somov) - to write the thing, really, so unlike the somovskuyu, and to make his signature? If it was the desire to write a fake, then why the forger did not show a minimum of creativity or, at least, meticulous craftsmen to the manner, compositions, etc., to bring its work to somovskoy? And in general - whether forged Somov painting during his lifetime and in the first decade after the death?
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