Oil on canvas: 116.8 x 104.1 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, November 2011. Sentimentalism. The subject comes from Leo Tolstoy's novella of the same title published in 1889, named after Beethoven’s sonata (Sonata No. 9 in A Major for piano and violin, Op. 47). The main character ends up killing his wife, after having attended a passionate recital by his wife and a violinist of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The violinist escapes.
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