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Ilya Repin
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Self-portrait, 1878
Nationality Russian
Known for Painting

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian: Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин, 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 – 29 September 1930) was an important Russian painter and sculptor.

Biography

Repin was born in a village near Kharkov, Russian Empire (now part of Ukraine). He came from a poor family. Repin first learned to paint from an icon painter. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg. Later he became a professor of painting at the same academy. He is best known for his paintings of scenes from Russian history and his portraits.

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  • Ilya Efimovich Repin in the Photographers studio Rentz and Schrader

    Photograph of Repin by Rentz and Schrader, 1900

  • Repin studying exam

    Students studying for an exam at the Academy of the Arts (1864) (State Russian Museum)

  • 1870Репин15

    Early sketch for Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870)

  • Ilia Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Volga Boatmen (1870-1873)

    Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870–1873); Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

  • 1873Шторм на Волге

    Early study, Storm on the Volga (1873) (State Russian Museum)

  • Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 013

    Resurrection of the Daughter of Jairus (1874)

  • Ilya-Y.-Repin-A-Novelties-Seller-in-Paris

    A novelty seller in Paris (1873) (Tretyakov Gallery)

  • Repin Comune

    The wall of Pere Lachaise Cemetery commemorating the Paris Commune (Tretyakov Gallery)

  • Parisian Cafe by Repin

    A Paris cafe (1875), (Museum of Avant-Garde Art, Moscow)

  • Ilya Repin - Sadko - Google Art Project

    Sadko (1876), Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

  • Procesión de Pascua en la región de Kursk, por Iliá Repin

    Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1880–1883; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

  • Ilya Repin - Крестный ход в Курской губернии - Google Art Project detail2

    Detail of the Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1881–1883)

  • Iván el Terrible y su hijo, por Iliá Repin

    Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan Tretyakov Gallery (1885)

  • Sophia Alekseyevna, by Ilya Repin

    The Tsarevnya Sophia Alekseyevna, Tretyakov Gallery (1879)

  • Ilya Repin Unexpected visitors

    They Did Not Expect Him, Tretyakov Gallery, (1884–1888)

  • Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887)

    Portrait of Tolstoy (1887)

  • Leo Tolstoy03

    Tolstoy reading under a tree in the forest, Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, (1891)

  • Leo Tolstoy02

    Tolstoy writing at Yasnaya Polyana, Pushkin House (1891)

  • Ilya Repin - Leo Tolstoy Barefoot - Google Art Project

    Tolstoy barefoot, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (1901)

  • 1908РепинТолстой

    Portrait of Tolstoy shortly before his death (1908)

  • Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 007

    Anton Rubinstein, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (1881)

  • Modest Músorgski, por Iliá Repin

    Modest Moussorgsky, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (1881)

  • Mikhail Glinka by Ilya Repin

    Mikhail Glinka composing the opera Ruslan and Ludmilla (1887) (painted thirty years after Glinka's death)

  • Glazunov by Repin

    Alexander Glazunov, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (1887)

  • Borodin by Repin

    Portrait of Composer and Chemist Alexander Borodin (1888)

  • Repin Zaporozhtsy drawing

    Preparatory sketch, Tretyakov Gallery (1878)

  • Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (sketch, 1880-90, GTG)

    Preliminary version detail (1880-1890)

  • Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin - Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks - Yorck

    Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV (1880-1891), State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg.(1880-1891)

  • Alexander III reception by Repin

    Tsar Alexander III receives local government officials at Petrovsky Palace (1886)

  • Nikolay II of Russia by I.Repin (1896, GIM)

    Tsar Nicholas II (1896) by Repin

  • Self portrait with Nordman by Repin

    Self-portrait with Natalia Nordman (1903). Ateneum, Helsinki

  • Илья Репин - Какой простор

    What Freedom! (1903)

  • Repino

    The Penates, the Repin House-Museum in Kuokkala, now Repino, Saint Petersburg

  • Ilya Repin - Ceremonial Sitting of the State Council on 7 May 1901 Marking the Centenary of its Foundation - Google Art Project

    Ceremonial Sitting of the State Council on 7 May 1901 Marking the Centenary of its Foundation". Repin was a pioneer in photographic realism.

  • Repin 17October

    October 17, 1905 -Celebration of the new Russian constitution (1905)

  • Repin IE 1914

    Repin in his studio at the Penates (1914)

  • Bolchevik 1918 Repine

    Drawing of a Red Army soldier stealing bread from a child (1918)

  • Gopak by Repin

    The Gopak, the last painting of Repin (1926–30), painted on linoleum, because he could not get a canvas large enough

  • Могила художника Репина

    The tomb of Repin at the Penates

  • Ilya Repin - Dragonfly. Painter's daughter portrait - Google Art Project

    "The Dragonfly" - Repin's daughter Vera, age twelve (1884)

  • Witte by Repin

    Sketch for Portrait of Sergei Witte, first Prime Minister of the new Russian government (1903)

  • Repin tretyakov

    Portrait of Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, founder of the Tretyakov Gallery

  • Menter by Repin

    Portrait of Sophie Menter, pianist and professor of music at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory

  • Ilya Repin - Portrait of Jelizaveta Zvantseva - Google Art Project

    Painter Elizaveta Zvantseva, Ateneum Gallery, Helsinki (1889)

  • Repin Religious Procession in Kursk Governorate sketch 1878 ateneum

    Sketch for Religious Procession in Kursk (1878)

  • 1880еРепин И.Е.ГлазуновСтасов

    Pencil sketch of the composer Alexander Glazunov (1880s)

  • Nevsky Prospekt by Repin

    Drawing for Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg, graphite pencil on paper (1887)

  • Duse by Repin

    The actress Eleanor Duse by Repin, charcoal on paper (1891)

  • Maria Tenisheva by I.Repin (1898, GTG)

    Study for portrait of the art patroness Princess Maria Tenisheva (1896)

  • Repin turf bench

    Repin's family on a turf bench (1876)

  • Seeing off a recruit (Repin)

    Seeing off a recruit (1879), State Russian Museum

  • Репин. Украинка у плетня

    Ukrainian Woman by Repin, (1876), Latvian National Museum of Art

  • Khata by Repin

    Ukrainian traditional peasant house painted by Repin (1880) Kyiv National Art Gallery

  • Музей И.Ю.Репина

    Repin Museum In Chuhuiv

  • Repin Slavic Composers

    Slavic Composers (1871)

  • E.V.Pavlov by Repin

    The Surgeon Evgeny Vasilyevich Pavlov in the Operating Theater (1888)

  • Ilya Repin - Cesar Cui

    Portrait of Composer César Antonovich Cui (1890)

  • Neapolitan woman (1894) by Ilya Repin - Неаполитанка

    Neapolitan Woman (1894)

  • Илья Репин - Портрет графини Наталия П. Головиной

    Portrait of Countess Natalia Petrovna Golovina (1896)

  • Ilya Repin. The blonde woman (portrait of Tevashova)

    The Blonde Woman (1898, portrait of Tevashova)

  • Gogol by Repin

    Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of "Dead Souls" (1909)

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