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| Ilya Repin in 1884 |
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 1-3 also.
This is part 4 of 9 on the works of Ilya Repin:
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| 1881 A Street in Tiflis oil on canvas 14 x 23 cm Pskov State Historical and Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1881 E.D. Botkina oil on canvas 112 x 82 cm Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia |
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| 1881 Head of a Hunchback ( study ) oil on canvas 23 x 17 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1881 The Hunchback oil on canvas 64 x 53 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
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| 1881 The Hunchback graphite (and Watercolour?) 32 x 23 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 The Hunchback graphite 32 x 23 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1881 Party oil on canvas 116 x 186 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1881 Pilgrim watercolour 30 x 22 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1881 Portrait of a Boy oil on canvas 34 x 25 cm Private Collection |
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| 1881 Portrait of A.S. Matveyev as a Child watercolour 35 x 25 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1881 Portrait of Actress Pelageya Strepetova as Elizaveta oil on canvas Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1881 Portrait of Composer Anton Rubinstein oil on canvas 80 x 62 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1881 Portrait of Nadya Repina, the Artist's Daughter oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm Saratov State Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1881 Portrait of the Composer Modest Musorgsky oil on canvas 69 x 57 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1881 Portrait of Y.B. Repman oil on canvas 73 x 63 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1881 Portrait of Yulia Makovskaya oil on canvas 59 x 48 cm Private Collection |
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| 1881 The Artist's Wife on a Sofa graphite 43 x 33 cm Arkhangelsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Russia |
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| 1881 The Watch oil on canvas 34 x 26 cm Samara Regional Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1882 Head of a Man oil on canvas 40 x 35 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Poprishchin oil on canvas 98 x 69 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine |
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| 1882 Portrait of Actress Pelageya Strepetovay oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Portrait of Artist Alexei Bogoliubov oil on canvas 65 x 53 cm Saratov State Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1882 Portrait of Artist Ivan Kramskoy oil on canvas 94 x 74 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Portrait of Military Engineer Andrey Delvig oil on canvas 108 x 86 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Portrait of Painter Ivan Pokhitonov oil on canvas 64 x 53 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Portrait of Poet Afanasy Fet oil on canvas 82 x 64 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Portrait of Professor Ivanov oil on canvas 58 x 48 cm Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1882 Portrait of Tatiana Rachinskaya oil on board 77 x 58 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Portrait of Vasily Syutaev oil on canvas 51 x 42 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Portrait of Vera Repina, the Artist's Wife oil on canvas 69 x 57 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Portrait of Yuri Repin, the Artist's Son oil on canvas 110 x 55 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Railway Watchman, Khotkovo oil on canvas 35 x 59 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1882 Woman Sewing pencil 32 x 23 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883 A Revolutionary Meeting oil on canvas 104 x 173 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883 A Street in Seville oil on panel 23 x 13 cm Private Collection |
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| 1883 A Student oil on canvas 35 x 27 cm Far-Eastern Art Museum, Khabarovsk, Russia |
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| 1883 Female Figure in a Landscape oil on canvas 89 x 65 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883 Girl at the Table oil on canvas Suomen Kansallisgalleria, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1883 Head of a Man oil on canvas 55 x 44 cm Trteyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883 Portrait of Art Critic Vladimir Stasov oil on canvas 74 x 60 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1883 Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov (Founder of the Tretyakov Gallery) oil on canvas 98 x 76 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883 Portrait of Singer Alexandra Molas oil on canvas The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1883 Portrait of Singer M.N. Klementova oil on canvas National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia |
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| 1883 Portrait of Writer Vsevolod Garshin oil on canvas 48 x 40 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883 The Annual Memorial Meeting Near the Wall of the Communards in the Cemetery of Père-Lachaise in Paris oil on canvas 37 x 60 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883 Unexpected Return oil on canvas 160 x 167 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883 Unexpected Return oil on panel 45 x 37 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1883-85 Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581 oil on canvas 199.5 x 254 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1884 Cabbage oil on canvas 53 x 64 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1884 Jesus Christ oil on canvas 58 x 48 cm Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1884 Portrait of Composer Pavel Blaramberg oil on canvas 78 x 60 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1884 Portrait of Nadezhda Stasova oil on canvas The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1884 Portrait of V.K. Menk oil on canvas 53 x 45 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1884 Portrait of Vera Repina, the Artist's Daughter oil on canvas 111 x 84 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1884 Portrait of Writer Vsevolod Garshin oil on canvas 89 x 69 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1884 The Cossack oil on canvas 49 x 41 cm Nizhny Tagil Fine Arts Museum, Russia |
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| 1884-85 Portrait of Engineer Ivan Adadurov oil on canvas 99 x 81 cm Perm State Arts Gallery, Russia |