Igor Grabar, Russian, 1871 to 1960, oil on board painting depicting a spring landscape. Signed by the artist lower right. Framed. Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar was a post-impressionist painter, publisher, restorer, and historian of art. Was trained as a painter by Ilya Repin in Saint Petersburg and by Anton Azbe in Munich. He reached his peak in painting in the 1900s and was notable for a peculiar divisionist painting technique bordering on pointillism. Mid Century Russian Landscape Painting For Collectors.