Lot n° 142
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18000 - 20000
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: 23 400EUR
REPIN Ilya Yefimovitch (1844-1930). Ilia - Lot 142
REPIN Ilya Yefimovitch (1844-1930). Ilia
Self-portrait of the artist.
Wash and graphite drawing on paper, signed by the artist at the bottom of the document in Latin letters "Ila Répine 1878", pasted onto a document bearing a handwritten inscription in Cyrillic characters in the artist's hand: "I certify that this self-portrait was painted by me, on November 21, 1878, in Helsinki, Ilya Répine" with wax seal under paper at the bottom of the document, preserved under glass in an antique painted wood frame and gilded pearl frieze. Good condition.
Sight: drawing: H.: 16.5 cm - W.: 10 cm.
Document: H.: 34 cm - W.: 12.5 cm.
Frame: H.: 48 cm - W.: 25 cm.
Provenance :
former private collection until 2000, then sold by
Christie's in London on November 27, 2017 under no. 28.
Reference: see another self-portrait by the artist, painted in 1887 in a pose quite similar to the one we present, in The Russian Vision - The
Art of Ilya Repin, by David Jackson, BAI Editions, 2002, page 219. This same work was presented in 2019 at the Petit Palais in Paris during the exhibition dedicated to the artist under the title "Ilya Répine (1844-1930), peindre l'âme russe", page 167 of the catalog.
Biography: Before training as a painter, Ilya Yefimovitch
Répine studied topography at the École Militaire, but two years later he joined the studio of icon painter I. Bounakoff in his hometown of Chuguyev. In 1863, he took classes with Ivan Kramskoï and continued his training at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. From 1872 to 1876, he received a scholarship from the Academy to study in Europe. On his return, he became an active member of the Société des Peintres Ambulants (a group of realist painters), then taught at the Higher Art Institute of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and at the Maria Tenicheva School (1894-1907). He was appointed to the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Répine's work flourished in the 1880s. He composed a gallery of portraits of his contemporaries, and worked as a painter of history and genre scenes. Today, he is undeniably considered one of the major painters of his time.
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