LOT 11 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MOSCOW ILYA EFIMOVICH REPIN 1844-1930 STUDY FOR A PARISIAN CAFE signed in Cyrillic, dated 1875 and inscribed Paris l.l.; further inscribed in Cyrillic and ...

"The face and soul of man, the drama of life, the impressions of nature, its life and meaning, the spirit of history—these are our themes," wrote Repin, who was celebrated as a master even during his ...

Ilya Repin’s Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885) will be the glaring omission from the New Tretyakov Gallery’s vast survey of 180 paintings and 130 graphic works by the Russian artist opening ...

The main intrigue is whether the correspondence in question was ever written. In the 1670s, the Ottoman Empire clashed with the Tsardom of Russia. Two hundred years later, renowned realist painter ...

Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious ...

Ilya Repin has long been considered one of the masters of Europe’s late-19 th-century Realist painting tradition. Yet he did not merely copy what he saw. Rather, he reincarnated the scene with an ...

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In addition to being a major topic of discussion in last night’s debate among Republican presidential hopefuls, Russian president Vladimir Putin is in the news for a more unusual reason today. Putin ...