Nikolai Ge Reading His Notes in the Editor’s Room of “Severny Vestnik”

Ink, pen on paper. 41.9 × 31.4 cm

Bottom left: author’s inscription and signature. Pasternak. To dear Lev Nikolaievich from L.Pasternak with love, 1908. 28 August, Moscow.

Bottom right: author’s inscription. Nik Ge reading his notes to edit. of  S.Vestnik L.Gurevich in Dolgorukovskaya st. in Moscow

Below the traces of worn-out author’s inscription: Here Nik. Nik. Ge showed his painting “The Crucifixion”.