Early Life and Education Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871–1960) was a Russian Post-Impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian of art. Grabar, descendant of a wealthy Rusyn family, was trained as a painter by Ilya Repin in Saint Petersburg and by Anton Àžbe in Munich. He reached his peak in painting between 1903–1907 and was notable for a peculiar divisionist painting technique bordering on pointillism and his rendition of…