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Lot Essay
The sitters are the artist's daughter Tat'iana with her husband, Nikolai Gennadievich Iazev, and their two daughters Liubochka, at the table, and Tassenka in the arms of a nurse. Iazev's mother is portrayed seated at the table. The interior is the artist's apartment at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg where he was director (1898-1899) and Head of the School of Fine Arts (1894-1907).
This picture is typical of Repin's work, representing the everyday realism that characterised his output both in genre painting such as Procession of the Cross in Kursk Province and Barge Haulers on the Volga, as well as his domestic and portrait painting. In this respect he continued the aims of the Peredvizhniki (the Wanderers) who some 30 years earlier had rejected the enforced rules of formality of the Academy of Arts and set up their own artistic groups to try and give their works a wider audience.
Igor Grabar' in his monograph on Repin gives a detailed description of this work.
We are greatful to Alexandra Petrovna Smirnova for assisting us in cataloguing the present painting.
This picture is typical of Repin's work, representing the everyday realism that characterised his output both in genre painting such as Procession of the Cross in Kursk Province and Barge Haulers on the Volga, as well as his domestic and portrait painting. In this respect he continued the aims of the Peredvizhniki (the Wanderers) who some 30 years earlier had rejected the enforced rules of formality of the Academy of Arts and set up their own artistic groups to try and give their works a wider audience.
Igor Grabar' in his monograph on Repin gives a detailed description of this work.
We are greatful to Alexandra Petrovna Smirnova for assisting us in cataloguing the present painting.