Self Portrait
Ilya Efimovich Repin
(5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 - September 29, 1930)
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.
The Zaporozhye Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan, 1890-91
Portrait of Zesar Kjui (1835-1918), 1890
Cry of prophet Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem (on a Bible subject)
Barge Haulers on the Volga
A Religious Procession in the Province of Kursk, 1880-83
Ukrainian peasant house
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom 1876
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey
![Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581 [detail] 2 by Ilya Efimovich Repin](/api/img/ilya-efimovich-efimovich-repin/b/a/base_17980331.jpg?w=900&q=60&v=3)
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581 [detail] 2
Double Portrait of Natalia Nordmann and Ilya Repin
Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky's duel
The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan of Turkey, sketch