IL'IA EFIMOVICH REPIN (1844-1930)

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IL'IA EFIMOVICH REPIN (1844-1930)

Dozing in a train

Signed in cyrillic lower right I.Repin, pencil on blue paper, with on reverse a later ink Cyrillic authentification inscription from the artist's daughter, Vera, dated 1934.

Executed in 1880

Lot Essay

In May 1880, Il'ia Repin Went with Valentin Serov to the Ukraine by train to gather material for his painting Zaporozhye cossacks writing a mocking letter to the turkish Sultan.

For similar drawings, see Grigory Sternin, Ilya Repin (Leningrad, 1985), p. 236.

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