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| Ilya Repin in 1889 |
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 1-4 also.
This is part 5 of 9 on the works of Ilya Repin:
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| 1884-86 Portrait of Artist Grigory Myasoedov oil on canvas 89 x 69 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1884-87 Choosing a Bride for the Grand Duke oil on canvas 65 x 101 cm Pern State Arts Gallery, Russia |
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| 1885 An Old Peasant oil on canvas 36 x 23 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine |
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| 1885 An Old Peasant oil on cardboard 22 x 13 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1885 Emperor Alexander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow oil on canvas 32 x 47 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1885 General P.A. Cherevin (study) oil on cardboard 23 x 14 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1885 Head of a Man oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1885 Historian Nikolai Kostomarov in the Coffin oil on canvas 55 x 87 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine |
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| 1885 Portrait of Artist Vasily Surikov oil on canvas 62 x 54 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1885 Portrait of Dmitry Mendeleev watercolour 58 x 46 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1885-86 Emperor Alexander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow oil on canvas 293 x 490 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1886 Portrait of a Man with His Arm in a Sling oil on canvas 29 x 25 cm Private Collection |
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| 1886 Portrait of Music Editor and Patron Mitrofan Petrovich Belyayev oil on canvas 125 x 89 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1886 Portrait of Vera Repina, the Artist's Daughter oil on canvas 134 x 63 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1887 A Nun oil on canvas |
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| 1887 Chez Dominique graphite 29 x 41 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1887 Coal Heaver oil on canvas 51 x 36 cm Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1887 Head of a Cossack oil on cardboard 23 x 14 cm Abramtsevo State Museum, Russia |
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| 1887 Nevsky Prospect graphite 30 x 41 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1887 Portrait of a Lady oil on canvas 57 x 46 cm Poltava Regional Art Museum, Ukraine |
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| 1887 Portrait of Composer Alexander Glazunov oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1887 Portrait of Composer Anton Rubinstein oil on canvas 110 x 85 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1887 Portrait of Composer Mikhail Glinka oil on canvas 98 x 117 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1887 Portrait of Leo Tolstoy as a Ploughman in a Field oil on canvas 28 x 40 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1887 Portrait of Leo Tolstoy oil on canvas 124 x 88 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1887 Portrait of pianist and professor of Saint-Petersburg Conservatory Sophie Menter oil on canvas 107 x 115 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1887 Portrait of Pianist M.K. Benois oil on canvas 125 x 88 cm Brodsky House Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1887 Portrait of Singer M.N. Klementova oil on canvas 63 x 51 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1887 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 75 x 62 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1887-96c Don Juan and Donna Anna oil on canvas 202 x 124 cm Institute of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg |
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| 1888 At the Concert watercolour The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1888 Ovation oil on canvas 32 x 43 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1888 Portrait of A.I. Vvedensky charcoal 95 x 75 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1888 Portrait of A.V. Zhirkevich oil on canvas 60 x 51 cm Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1888 Portrait of Composer and Chemist Aleksander Porfirievich Borodin oil on canvas 209 x 138 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1888 Portrait of O.A. Makarova Nizhny graphite? Novgorod State Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1888 St. Nicholas Saves Three Innocents from Death oil on canvas 215 x 196 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1890 St. Nicholas Saves Three Innocents from Death oil on canvas 215 x 198 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine |
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| 1890 St. Nicholas Saves Three Innocents from Death oil on paper 126 x 98 cm Kharkov Museum of Art, Ukraine |
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| 1888 Surgeon E.V. Pavlov in the Operation Room oil on cardboard 27 x 40 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1889 Portrait of a Peasant oil on canvas 98 x 80 cm Simferopol Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1889 Portrait of Art Critic Vladimir Stasov at the Dacha oil on canvas 40 x 37 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1889 Portrait of Baroness Varvara Ikskul von Hildenbandt oil on canvas 169 x 71 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1889 Portrait of painter Elizaveta Zvantseva oil on canvas 89 x 69 cm Suomen Kansallisgallera, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1889 Portrait of Elizaveta Zvantseva watercolour 34 x 28 cm Private Collection |
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| 1889 Portrait of General and Statesman Mikhail Dragomirov oil on canvas 60 x 51 cm State Historical Museum, Moscow |
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| 1889 Portrait of Physiologist Ivan Sechenov oil on canvas 87 x 67 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1889 Portrait of Savva Mamontov oil on canvas 75 x 66 cm A. A. Bakhrushin State Theatrical Museum, Moscow |
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| 1889 Portrait of Sophia Dragomirova oil on canvas 98 x 78 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1889 The Cossack oil on canvas 68 x 82 cm Private Collection |
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| 1890 Laughing Cossack watercolour 23 x 26 cm Natuinal Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev |
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| 1890 Portrait of Composer Cesar Cui oil on canvas 125 x 98 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1890 Portrait of Countess Mercy d'Argenteau oil on canvas 86.5 x 108 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1890 Portrait of E.V. Lavrova watercolour The State Russian Museum, St, Petersburg |
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| 1890 Portrait of O. S. Aleksandrova-Geins oil on canvas 124 x 106 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1890 The Nativity oil on canvas 73 x 53 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |