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| 1878 Ilya Repin Self-Portrait |
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844 – 1930) was a Russian realist painter. He was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature.
In 1863 Repin went to St. Petersburg Art Academy to study painting but had to enter Ivan Kramskoy preparatory school first. He met fellow artist Ivan Kramskoy (Kramskoy is also featured on this blog - see index) and the critic Vladimir Stasov during the 1860s, and his wife, Vera Shevtsova in 1872 (they remained married for ten years). In 1874–1876 he showed at the Salon in Paris and at the exhibitions of the Itinerants Society in Saint Petersburg. He was awarded the title of Academician in 1876.
In 1892 he published the "Letters on Art" collection of essays. He taught at the Higher Art School attached to the Academy of Arts from 1894. In 1898 he purchased an estate, Penaty (the Penates), in Kuokkala, Finland (now Repino, St. Petersburg.)
In 1901 he was awarded the Legion of Honour. In 1911 he travelled with his common-law wife Natalia Nordman to the World Exhibition in Italy, where his painting "Demonstration 17 October 1905" and his portraits were displayed in their own separate room.
For more detailed biographical notes on Repin see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 and 2 also.
This is part 3 of 9 on the works of Ilya Repin:
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| 1878 A Nun oil on canvas 88 x 68 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 Girl with Flowers ( aka Vera Repina ) oil on canvas 61 x 49 cm Brodsky House Museum, Russia |
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| 1878 Hero of the Past War oil on canvas 50 x 34 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 In the Cottage oil on canvas 29 x 36 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 Pilgrims oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 Portrait of A.D. Tretyakova oil on canvas 106 x 88 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 Portrait of Artist Pavel Сhistyakov oil on canvas 87 x 67 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 Portrait of Poet and Slavophile Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov oil on canvas 97 x 76 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 Portrait of Railway Tycoon and Patron of the Arts, Savva Mamontov oil on canvas Abramtsevo State Museum, Moscow |
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| 1878 Portrait of Vera Repina, the Artist's Wife oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1878 Religious Procession in the Oak Grove oil on canvas 24 x 31 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 Self-Portrait pen and ink and wash Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Turkish Sultan Mahmoud IV graphite Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1878 Two Women watercolour 30 x 20 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1878 View of Varvarino Village oil on canvas The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
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| 1879 A Bearded Peasant watercolour 30 x 20 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879 A Beggar pencil 35 x 25 cm Tretykov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 Apples and Leaves oil on canvas The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1879 Farewell with a Recruit oil on canvas 143 x 225 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1879 Portrait of E. G. Mamontova pencil 32 x 25 cm Abrantsevo State Museum, Moscow |
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| 1879 Portrait of E. G. Mamontova graphite Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 Portrait of E.L. Prakhova and Artist R.S. Levitsky pencil 35 x 26 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 Portrait of Efim Repin, the Artist's Father oil on canvas The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1879 Portrait of Polixena Stasova oil on canvas 75 x 66 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1879 Portrait of S.A. Repina oil on canvas 23 x 17 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 Portrait of S.F.Mamontova oil on canvas Abramtsevo State Museum, Russia |
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| 1879 Portrait of Savva Mamontov pencil 32 x 25 cm Abramtsevo State Museum, Russia |
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| 1879 Portrait of Storyteller V.P. Tschegolionkov oil on canvas 102 x 80 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1879 Portrait of T. A. Mamontova graphite The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1879 Portrait of T.S. Repina, the Artist's Mother graphite 30 x 22 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 Portrait of Writer Ivan Turgenev oil on canvas 89 x 68 cm Sebastopol Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1879 Portrait of Yurkevich oil on canvas 53 x 43 cm Abramtsevo State Museum, Moscow |
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| 1879 Princess Sophia Alexeevna in the New Maiden Convent oil on canvas 202 x 145 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 Promenade with Lanterns oil on canvas 52 x 32 cm Abramtsevo State Museum, Russia |
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| 1879 The Arrest of a Propagandist pencil 22 x 30 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 The Arrest of a Propagandist graphite Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1880-92c The Arrest of a Propagandist oil on canvas 35 x 55 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 The Farmyard oil on canvas 28 x 44 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1879 Vera Repina on a Bridge in Abramtsevo oil on canvas 38 x 61 cm The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
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| 1879-85 Before the Confession oil on canvas 48 x 58 cm Tretykov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1880 A Ukrainian Peasant oil on canvas Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1880 Two Ukrainian Peasants oil on canvas 29 x 38 cm Národní galerie v Praze (Prague, Czech Republic) |
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| 1879 Vera Repina with Children Walking in the Field oil on canvas 61 x 48 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1880 A View of the Svyatogorsk Assumption Monastery oil on canvas 62 x 37 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1880 Andrei Kot graphite 33 x 24 cm Ryazan Regional Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1880 Confession watercolour 30 x 22 cm Nizhny Tagil Fine Arts Museum, Russia |
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| 1880 Portrait of Artist Nikolay Ge oil on canvas 82 x 66 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1880 Portrait of Writer Alexey Pisemsky oil on canvas 89 x 71 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1880 Summer Day in Abramtsevo oil on canvas 39 x 52 cm Polenov Memorial Museum, Russia |
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| 1880 The Cossack Colonel oil on canvas 56 x 31 cm Sumy Art Museum, Ukraine |
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| 1880 The Hunchback watercolour study 61 x 52 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1880 Woman at the Piano oil on canvas 46 x 36 cm Sumy Art Museum, Ukraine |
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| 1880c Head of a Peasant oil on canvas 59 x 49 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine |
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| 1881 A Pilgrim oil on canvas30 x 17 cm Penza Regional Picture Gallery, Russia |