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Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
Lot 22 PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR

Ilya Repin (1844-1930)

Skiff at Stavropol

Closed3 June 2013

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GBP 8,125

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Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
Skiff at Stavropol
signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian and dated 'Stavropol/I. Repin./16 June' (lower left); with number '519' (upper right)
pencil on paper
10 x 11 in. (25.4 x 27.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1870

A La Vieille Russie, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in New York in the 1960s.

Specialist note

Ilya Repin spent the summer of 1870 travelling along the Volga making numerous preparatory drawings and paintings for his subsequent Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870-1873, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg). On 15 June 1870 he arrived in Stavropol-Samarskii, a town on the Volga which no longer exists. The present work was executed the day after he arrived.