Self portrait
Ilya Efimovich Repin (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844, Chuhuiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) - September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Finland) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school.
An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine.
His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the USSR, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later, and where he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists in the Soviet Union.
-wife-of-D.V.-Stasov,-1879-small.jpg "Portrait of Poliksena Stepanovna Stasova (1839-1918)... - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
-in-his-Study,-1891-small.jpg "Lev Tolstoy (1818-1910) in his Study, 1891 - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
-King-of-the-Belgians-in-the-First-World-War,-1914-small.jpg "Albert I (1875-1934) King of the Belgians in the First... - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
,-from-Slavonic-Composers,-1890s-small.jpg "Count Aleksei Lvov (1798-1870), from Slavonic Composers... - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
-small.jpg "Portrait of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
-small.jpg "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan 1870-1873 (sketch) - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
-small.jpg "Emperor Nicholas II (sketch) - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
,-Mily-Balakirev-(1837-1910)-and-Mikhail-Ivanovich-Glinka-(1804-57),-1890s-small.jpg "Vladimir Odoevsky (1803-69), Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)... - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
-Performing-Poetry-at-the-Lyceum-on-the-8th-January-1815,-1910-small.jpg "Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) Performing... - Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin")
