Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
A pensive portrait. 1933
Portrait photograph signed (twice, on the mount and on the presentation card, ‘Ivan Bunin’), and inscribed to Fredrik Vetterlund, Grasse, 23 March 1933.

Inscribed in French. The image by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, dated 'Paris 1929' by Bunin. Image 166 x 103mm, mount 188 x 121mm, further mounted in a bfiolium presentation card, 280 x 190mm.

A pensive portrait, inscribed in the year in which Bunin won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Russian to do so. Fredrik Vetterlund (1865-1960) was a Swedish author and translator. Vetterlund used this portrait and signature to illustrate his article about Bunin in Ord och Bild, ed. Karl Wahlin (Stockholm, 1934), pp.55ff.

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