IL'IA EFIMOVICH REPIN (1844-1930)

Studies of figures on the Nevskii Prospect in St. Petersburg

Details

IL'IA EFIMOVICH REPIN (1844-1930)
Studies of figures on the Nevskii Prospect in St. Petersburg
signed in Cyrillic 'I. Repin' (lower center) and authenticated in Russian 'The drawing of Professor I E Repin "Nevskii Prospekt" Spb 1891 I verify, his daughter Vera I.L. Repina Kuokkala Penati 1937.' (on reverse)
charcoal on paper
11¼ x 16in. (29.7 x 40.5cm.)

Exhibited

Moscow, Tretiakov Gallery, Repin, (1999), n. 202, ill. p. 163

Lot Essay

Variations of the characters depicted on this drawing were used for an article entitled 'Nevsky Prospekt' written by Isabel F. Hapgood and published in Scribner's Magazine in 1892.
For a similar drawing see Christie's London, 26 April 1989, lot 154.

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