XV - Works On Paper - Marty de Cambiaire (English)

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Ilya Repin
Tchouhouïv 1844 – Kuokkala 1930
A sketch-book dating from 1872-1875, comprising approximately 120 pencil drawings, seven coloured
pencil drawings and two ink drawings including studies for: Ballet Scene, A Paris Café, Sadko in the
Underwater Kingdom, and A Newspaper Seller in Paris; drawings of literary subjects; portrait sketches;
sketches of French and Russian characters; and a self-portrait dated 1873 bound therein authenticated
by Vera Repina, the artist’s daughter in 1935-36
signed in Cyrillic and numbered Il. Repin/I=70 (on the inside cover)
8 x 6 ¼ in. (20.3 x 16 cm); and smaller: the album 8 x 7¼ in. (215 x 181 mm) overall
The sketch-book also contains 15 pages of names and addresses of the artist’s models in Paris.
PROVENANCE
Acquired from the artist’s daughter, Vera Repina (1872-1948), by Martin Mansson in Stockholm in 1936.
Sold by his grandson at Christie’s, London, Russian Art including Ilya Repin’s A Parisian Café,
6 th June 2011, lot 23.
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