Ilya Repin (1844-1930)

The village of Palna

Details

Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
The village of Palna
signed 'Ilja Repin' (lower right), inscribed in Russian 'To accompany S. A. Stakhovich's essay' (lower left)
pencil and ink on paper
8 5/8 x 12¼ in. (22 x 31.4 cm.)
with a study of a dancing woman on the reverse

Provenance

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner, an acquaintance of the artist in Kuokkala before World War II.

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Lot Essay

Sophia Stakhovich (1862-1942) was a writer and a close friend of both Ilya Repin and Lev Tolstoy who frequented her estate of Palna-Mikhailovka in the Russian countryside. Repin stayed as a guest during the summer of 1891 and the winter of 1892, where he worked on a series of sketches based on the villagers of Palna. The present work is dedicated to Sofia Stakhovich as an illustration to accompany one of her essays.

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