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拍品專文
A.F. Kerenskii (1881-1970), by profession a lawyer, became the leader of the Provisional Government following the February 1917 revolution until the Bolshevik coup in October.
The portrait was commissioned by the Petrograd publishing House "Free Russia" on behalf of Kerenskii admirers. The sittings took place, in September 1917, in the library of the last Tsar Nicholas II in the Winter Palace where Kerenskii moved his office in the company of the painter I. Brodskii who initiated the first contact between the two men.
"While Kerenskii sat on an armchair bathed in sunlight I drew him thus. Such was the man who wielded power almost like the Emperor, but he appeared a nonentity". See I. Grabar and I. Zil'bershtein, Repin, (Moscow and Leningrad, 1948-1949), vol. II, p. 315
Two oil portraits were painted during these sittings as well two others on paper. Both oil portraits are dated 1918.
The first smaller oil portrait (also on linoleum) was given by Repin to the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow in May 1926 where it was stored for many years finally being rehung in 1993 for the exhibition "Faces of an epoque".
The present larger oil portrait appears on the estate list of the artist drawn after his death and was given to his daughter Tatiana in 1931. The same list mentions a drawing with crayon and a watercolor of the same portrait given to his second daughter Vera and his son Iuri (their whereabouts are unknown).
The present painting was also included in the first and only Ilya Repin exhibition which took place in New York in 1921 during the life of the artist (see reproduction).
This portrait can be considered as one of the last portraits painted by Repin in Russia before leaving and settling in Finland on his estate The Penates.
The portrait was commissioned by the Petrograd publishing House "Free Russia" on behalf of Kerenskii admirers. The sittings took place, in September 1917, in the library of the last Tsar Nicholas II in the Winter Palace where Kerenskii moved his office in the company of the painter I. Brodskii who initiated the first contact between the two men.
"While Kerenskii sat on an armchair bathed in sunlight I drew him thus. Such was the man who wielded power almost like the Emperor, but he appeared a nonentity". See I. Grabar and I. Zil'bershtein, Repin, (Moscow and Leningrad, 1948-1949), vol. II, p. 315
Two oil portraits were painted during these sittings as well two others on paper. Both oil portraits are dated 1918.
The first smaller oil portrait (also on linoleum) was given by Repin to the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow in May 1926 where it was stored for many years finally being rehung in 1993 for the exhibition "Faces of an epoque".
The present larger oil portrait appears on the estate list of the artist drawn after his death and was given to his daughter Tatiana in 1931. The same list mentions a drawing with crayon and a watercolor of the same portrait given to his second daughter Vera and his son Iuri (their whereabouts are unknown).
The present painting was also included in the first and only Ilya Repin exhibition which took place in New York in 1921 during the life of the artist (see reproduction).
This portrait can be considered as one of the last portraits painted by Repin in Russia before leaving and settling in Finland on his estate The Penates.