The artist Ilya Repin (1844-1930) listening to the Futurists

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Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939)
The artist Ilya Repin (1844-1930) listening to the Futurists
signed, inscribed in Russian and dated 'Boris Grigoriev/Kuokkola 1915' (lower right); further inscribed 'à mon cher ami Vladimir Bashkiroff/New York 1934.' (lower left)
pencil on paper
6¾ x 7 in. (17 x 18 cm.)

Provenance

Vladimir Bashkiroff (1885-1969) (inscription lower left).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's London, 15 December 1994, lot 15.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka etiudov, eskizov i risunkov Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art Exhibition of Studies and Drawings], 1915, listed no. 122.
Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka etiudov, eskizov i risunkov Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art Exhibition of Studies and Drawings], 1916, listed no. 86.
Lukomor’e, XVIII, illustrated p. 27.
T. Galeeva, Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev, St Petersburg, 2007, pl. 101.
G. Romanov, Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art] 1898-1927, St Petersburg, 2010, listed pp. 32 & 33, nos. 122 & 86 respectively.
Exhibition catalogue, A. Nizamutdinova, Boris Grigoriev, St Petersburg, 2011, illustrated p. 231.

Exhibited

St Petersburg, Vystavka etiudov, eskizov i risunkov Mir Iskyusstva [The World of Art Exhibition of Studies and Drawings], 7 November-29 December 1915, no. 122.
St Petersburg, Vystavka etiudov, eskizov i risunkov Mir Iskyusstva [The World of Art Exhibition of Studies and Drawings], 26 December 1915-2 February 1916, no. 86.

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Lot Essay

The present work was executed by Boris Grigoriev at Ilya Repin's estate Penates in Kuokkola in 1915, during one of the many artistic gatherings that took place there. Repin also drew a fine portrait of Boris Grigoriev at the same time (sold Sotheby’s, London, 16 June 1994, lot 52). Grigoriev later dedicated this work to Vladimir Bashkiroff in New York in 1934. Formerly the director of the Volga Kamskii bank in Nizhnii-Novgorod, Bashkiroff emigrated to the United States in 1919 and was a close friend and major supporter of numerous writers, artists and composers. He was particularly instrumental in the preservation of Russian culture in the United States and was an important collector of Modern Russian art.

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