Opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (Фёдор Иванович Шаляпин; 1873-1938), lithograph by Leonid Pasternak.
The lithograph is signed and dated in the plate – 1924, and signed by the artist Leonid Pasternak.(in pencil, on the right margin).
48 cm. Mounted on cardboard. Fair condition. Stains. Large cracks and breaks at the margins. Tape reinforcements on verso (around the perimeter of the cardboard).
Leonid Pasternak (Леонид Осипович Пастернак; 1862-1945), a Russian-Jewish Impressionist painter, father of Boris Pasternak. Born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Odessa, he studied law and medicine before turning to art and training at the Academy of Arts in Munich. He was a friend of Leo Tolstoy, illustrated several of his books, and painted a number of his portraits; in 1905, the was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts and taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1921, he traveled to Berlin for eye surgery and never returned to live in Russia. He passed away in Oxford, England.
