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| 1905 Gorky, Pirogov and Ilya Repin (right) in Penaty |
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 1-6 also.
This is part 7 of 9 on the works of Ilya Repin:
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| 1898 Portrait of the Artist's Daughter Nadezhda oil on canvas 71 x 58 cm Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1899 Actress Vera Pushkareva Suomen Kansallisgalleria, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1899 Portrait of Actress Sazonova-Shuvalova tempera on cardboard 74 x 53 cm Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Rostov-on-Don, Russia |
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| 1899 Portrait of L.I. Shestakova oil on canvas 65 x 51 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1899 Portrait of Maxim Gorky oil on canvas The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1899 The Duel of Onegin and Lensky watercolour 29 x 39 cm Institute of Russian Literature, St, Petersburg |
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| 1899 The Vice-President of the Academy of Arts, I.I. Tolstoy oil on canvas 120 x 87 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1900 A Dancing Man pencil 36 x 24 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine |
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| 1900 Portrait of Art Critic Vladimir Stasov oil on canvas 107 x 72 cm The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg |
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| 1900 Portrait of Nadezhda Nordman-Severova oil on canvas 147 x 72 cm Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1900 Portrait of Nadezhda Repina, the Artist's Daughter oil on canvas 94 x 67 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1900 The Arrival of Princes Piotr and Ioann oil on canvas |
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| 1901 Portrait of Academician Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky oil on canvas 66 x 48 cm The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg |
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| 1901 Portrait of Alexandra Botkina pastel 75 x 54 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1901 Portrait of Member of State Council Grand Prince Mikhail Aleksandrovich Romanov (study) oil on canvas 70 x 58 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1901 Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov oil on canvas 110 x 132 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1901 The Reader graphite or charcoal? 62 x 48 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1901 Valentin Serov charcoal on canvas 116.5 x 63.3 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1902 Portrait of Actor V.V. Samoilov oil on canvas 71 x 58 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1902 Portrait of Deputy Interior Minister and Member of State Council, Count Aleksey Ignatiev oil on canvas 89 x 63 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1902 Portrait of Ivan Shamshin oil on canvas 54 x 40 cm Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Russia |
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| 1902 Portrait of Russian Statesman Konstantin Pobedonostsev (study) oil on canvas 69 x 53 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1903 Boys on the Grass oil on canvas 21 x 28 cm Private Collection |
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| 1903 Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council oil on canvas 400 x 877 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1903 Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council (study) oil on canvas 58 x 42 cm Kharkov Museum of Art, Ukraine |
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| 1903 Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council (study) oil on canvas 80 x 54 cm Kharkov Museum of Art, Ukraine |
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| 1903 Dance of the Sea King pen and ink 17 x 22 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1903 On the Gulf of Finland oil on canvas Novgorod State Museum, Russia |
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| 1903 Portrait of Count D.M. Solsky oil on canvas 76 x 56 cm National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan |
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| 1903 Portrait of Count K.N. Palen oil on canvas 54 x 38 cm Cherepovets Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1903 Portrait of Finance Minister Sergey Vitte oil on canvas 84 x 59 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1903 Portrait of Finance Minister Sergey Vitte oil on canvas 84 x 60 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1903 Portrait of General Aleksei Kuropatkin oil on canvas 62 x 44 cm Pskov State Historical and Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1903 Portrait of Members of the State Council Ivan Goremykin and Nikolai Gerard (study) oil on canvas 63 x 45 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1903 Portrait of Prince Mikhail Khilkov oil on canvas 59 x 49 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1903 Portrait of Prince Mikhail Volkonsky oil on canvas 88 x 68 cm Pskov State Historical and Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1903 Portrait of Professor N.N. Obruchev oil on canvas 57 x 49 cm The State Russin Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1903 Self-Portrait with Natalia Nordmann oil on canvas 78 x 130 cm Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1903 The Last Supper oil on canvas 63 x 103 cm Novgorod State Museum, Veliky Novgorod, Russia |
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| 1903 What a Freedom! oil on canvas 179 x 284.5 cm The Sate Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1903 Winter Landscape oil on canvas? Suomen Kansallisgalleria, Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1904 Feast graphite (and watercolour?) 33 x 25 cm The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg |
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| 1904 On the Black Sea (study) oil on canvas 34 x 20 cm Repin Estate Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1904 Portrait of Writer Leonid Andreev oil on canvas 93 x 72 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1904 The Curator oil on panel Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1904 View onto the Grand Canal, Venice oil on panel Private Collection |
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| 1905 At the Piano charcoal sketch 45 x 29 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1905 Maxim Gorky Reciting His Drama "Children of the Sun" charcoal 28 x 50 cm Private Collection |
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| 1905 Palace Square, St. Petersburg oil on panel 12 x 21 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1905 Portrait of Art Critic Vladimir Stasov oil on canvas 101 x 75 cm Kharkov Museum of Art, Ukraine |
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| 1905 Portrait of Maria Andreeva oil on canvas National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk |
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| 1905 Portrait of Nadezhda Nordman-Severova oil on canvas 96 x 68 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1905 Portrait of Writer Leonid Andreev oil on canvas 93 x 71 cm Omsk Museum of Fine Arts, Russia |
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| 1906 Portrait of Countess Mara Oliv oil on canvas 90 x 72 cm Tyumen Regional Fine Arts Museum, Russia |
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| 1906 Portrait of the Delarov Family oil on canvas 84 x 129 cm Arkhangelsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Russia |
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| 1907 African Woman oil on canvas Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum |
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