A little man from timid, Repin, 1877 
- Posted by Ilya Efimovich Repin
- Museum: Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
- Year: 1877
Overview of the painting :
A man of timid – Ilya Efimovich Repin. 1877. Oil on canvas. 65 x 54 cm
One of the most interesting portraits of Repin’s work, in which everything is amazing, starting with the name itself. Before us is a thin little man, hacked, with a salary beard. His posture can be taken for expressing some uncertainty, constraint. But only a pose. Eyes give the hero a storm of passions, will, fearlessness and energy. This may be the robber, the rebel. The man’s timidity is concurrent, false. He is like a compressed spring that is about to straighten…
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