Victor Stember - Self Portrait

This self-portrait was done in 1918 when Stember was 55 years old.

It is believed by the family that this self-portrait is referenced in Stembers Diary on page 177:

'I remembered-for the information of my children-that in Petrograd, at the Kuindji Society, on Gogol street, is my portrait, one of the most successful ones, painted during my last years residence in Petrograd in 1918.  It had been on exhibit in the Winter Palace and was left there with other paintings.  The manager of paintings of the Kuindji Society, Venedict Pavlovich Kuznetsov, was charged to move the portrait from the Palace and to place it in the society's storage.  The portrait is in an oak frame.'

Since this portrait is stated by the artists daughter Natalie to have been painted in 1918, it is supposed that it is the referenced painting.