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| 1914 Ilya Repin painting a portrait of Feodor Chaliapin |
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 1-8 also.
This is part 9 of 9 on the works of Ilya Repin:
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| 1920 Portrait of Akseli Gallen-Kallela oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1922 Portrait of the Violinist Cecilia Hansen oil on board 189 x 93 cm Private Collection |
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| 1923 Self-Portrait (medium?) 9 x 14 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| 1924 Portrait of Academician Ivan Pavlov oil on canvas 54 x 48 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1925 Portrait of Maria Klopushina watercolour 32 x 24 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925-26 Portrait of Poet Voinov oil on panel 74 x 51 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine |
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| 1926 Woman and Priest oil on canvas 45 x 53 cm Simferopol Art Museum, Russia |
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| 1927 The Dance (oil on canvas?) 174 x 210 cm Private Collection |
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| 1977 The Village of Mokhnachi graphite 22 x 30 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| n.d. A Bemused Moment oil on canvas 62 x 80 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. A Soldier oil on canvas 61 x 48 cm Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum, Russia |
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| n.d. A Young Soldier oil on canvas 29 x 22 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. An Old Woman oil on canvas 18 x 11 cm Abramtsevo State Museum, Moscow |
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| n.d. At the Theatre etching 31 x 21 cm Vitebsk Art Museum, Belarus |
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| n.d. Boris Godunov and Ivan the Terrible oil on canvas 50 x 167 cm Tver Regional Picture Gallery, Russia |
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| n.d. Christ Blessing Children oil on canvas 29 x 35 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Cossacks on the Black Sea oil on canvas 103 x 151 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Demonstration on October 17, 1905 oil on canvas 42 x 63 cm State Historical Museum, Moscow |
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| n.d. Follow Me, Satan oil on canvas 56 x 121 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine |
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| n.d. Head of a Man oil on canvas 29 x 28 cm Bashkir State Art Museum, Russia |
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| n.d. Head of a Man oil on canvas 53 x 44 cm Fine Arts Museum of Udmurtia, Russia |
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| n.d. Italian Woman oil on canvas 101 x 74 cm Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, Russia |
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| n.d. Jesus Christ oil on canvas 61 x 26 cm Arkhangelsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Russia |
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| n.d. Makar Simak watercolour 29 x 31 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| n.d. Man with a Turban oil on canvas 116 x 72 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Men's Heads (study) oil on canvas 38 x 49 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| n.d. Merchant Kalashnikov (Illustration for the poem by Mikhail Lermontov, "The Song of Merchant Kalashnikov") watercolour 34 x 25 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. On the Embankment oil on cardboard 26 x 18 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Boy tempera on paper 22 x 11 cm Tbilisi Fine Arts Museum, Georgia |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Lady oil on canvas 115 x 90 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Man oil on canvas 53 x 36 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Peasant oil on canvas 22 x 17 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Woman crayon? 12 x 18 cm Vitebsk Art Museum, Belarus |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Woman tempera on paper Tbilisi Fine Arts Museum, Georgia |
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| n.d. Portrait of Baron A.A. Ikskul von Hildenbandt oil on canvas 58 x 44 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| n.d. Portrait of Dante oil on canvas 72 x 58 cm Kostroma State Museum, Russia |
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| n.d. Portrait of Dr. G. Kostrov watercolour 36 x 27 cm Lviv National Art Gallery, Ukraine |
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| n.d. Portrait of G.G. Ge as 'Mephistopheles' oil on canvas 61.1 x 51.4 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Portrait of lawyer Oskar Grusenberg oil on canvas 105 x 72 cm Vladikavkaz Art Museum, Russia |
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| n.d. Portrait of P. Schindler etching 27 x 21 cm Vitebsk Art Museum, Belarus |
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| n.d. Portrait of Romanov charcoal 130 x 92 cm Volgograd Fine Arts Museum |
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| n.d. Portrait of S.A. Repina oil on canvas 53 x 44 cm Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine |
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| n.d. Portrait of Secretary of State Mikhail Galkin-Vransky oil on canvas 65 x 58 cm Primorye State Picture Gallery, Russia |
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| n.d. Portrait of Sofia Repina graphite Private Collection |
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| n.d. Privy Councillor oil on canvas |
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| n.d. Self-Portrait (watercolour?) Suomen Kansallisgalleria, Helsinki, Finland |
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| n.d. Summer Landscape in the Kursk Province oil on canvas 14 x 20 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| n.d. The Cossack watercolour 22 x 18 cm Vitebsk Art Museum, Belarus |
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| n.d. The Dancer oil on panel 59 x 45 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. The Entry (study) oil on cardboard 33 x 26 cm Novgorod State Museum, Russia |
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| n.d. The Picnic (study) oil on cardboard Private Collection |
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| n.d. The Rider watercolour 52 x 40 cm Primorye State Picture Gallery, Vladivosok, Russia |
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| n.d. The Saviour Icon oil on canvas 30 x 33 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. The Temptation of Christ oil on canvas 57 x 87 cm Rostov Kremlin Museum, Russia |
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| n.d. Vera Shevtsova oil on canvas 17 x 14 cm Gorlovka Art Museum, Ukraine |
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| n.d. Woman on the Sofa oil on canvas 52 x 65 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| n.d. Young Man with a Turban oil paper 17 x 11 cm Private Collection |
