Portrait of Vera Repina, daughter of the artist

Repin gave the same concentration to his drawings as to his paintings. He did not spend a single day without drawing sketches, compositions for his paintings, landscapes but most of all portraits. As one of the most important Russian portraitists at the end of the 19th Century, Repin tried in each of his portraits to catch the character of the sitter. In the late 1890's, he executed a number of powerful 'large drawings' on canvas in charcoal, like the portrait of Eleonora Duze (1891) or Valentin Serov (1901). Such 'large drawings' as the present portrait of his daughter Vera have appeared rarely on the market.