Live Auction 974619th Century European Art
Follower of Ilya Efimovich Repin (Russian, 1844-1930)
Lot 170

Follower of Ilya Efimovich Repin (Russian, 1844-1930)

Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan

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GBP 2,585

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Follower of Ilya Efimovich Repin (Russian, 1844-1930)
Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan
signed in cyrillic (lower right)
oil on canvas
27½ x 45 in. (68.5 x 114.2 cm.)

Specialist note

This work is probably a copy of an early study by Repin of 'Zapoprozgii Cossacks writing a mocking letter to the Turkish Sultan.' This study has now been lost but it was published in the catalogue of the Ilya Repin exhibition in New York, 1921.