Drawings
Katerina Ivanovna
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- Date
- ca. 1933
- Accession number
- 93.11
- Maker
- Boardman Robinson(Opens in new tab) (American, 1876–1952)
- Dimensions
- 15 x 11 3/4 in. (38.1 x 29.8 cm.)
- Medium
- graphite and oil on paper laid on paper
- Description
- This drawing was given to the Huntington by Paul S. Kearns, a student of Mr. Robinson, who acquired the drawing from the artist for $18 in May or June 1947. The drawing depicts a man with a sword on the right (Dmitri Karamazov) bowing to a woman (Katerina Ivanovna), who stands in a doorway holding a handkerchief to her mouth with one hand and either accepting or giving a piece of paper (probably the money) with the other hand. The work is a study for an illustration Robinson made for a 1933 University of Chicago edition of Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov,' Book III, 'The Confession of an ardent heart -- in verse'
