976997

Russian Pen & Ink, Ilya Repin ? (1844-1930) #976997

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Russian Pen & Ink,  Ilya Repin ? (1844-1930)  #976997
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Portrait of Bearded Man <p>
Signed in Cyrillic l.r. and dated March 17,
1897<p>
Pen and ink<p>
image size: 8 x 6 3/8 (20.3 x 16.2 cm.).
Framed: 14 x 12 3/4 in. (35.5 x 32.4
cm.)<p>
Provenance:From the
private collection of Alexander Sklarevski.<p>

Alexander Fedorovich Sklarevski
(1882-1963) was a concert pianist who fled
Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution,
travelling East by train across Siberia to
Vladivostok. As a graduate in 1908, he
received the first of many gold medals from
the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory of
Music. He was later elected Director of the
Third Imperial Conservatory of Saratov. For
decades Sklarevski performed recitals around
the world to great acclaim. In 1923, he joined
the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in
Baltimore where he remained a professor for
30 years.


This pen and ink is possibly
by Ilya Efimovich Repin. Russia?s premier late 19th century
painter and a pivotal figure of Russian
Realism, Repin studied
at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St.
Petersburg under the artist Ivan Kramskoy and
received a gold medal upon graduation in
1871. During his early career
Repin produced one of his most celebrated
canvases, Barge Haulers on the River
Volga.
An intense depiction of human suffering, the
painting won him lasting recognition in
Russia and in Vienna where it was exhibited
in 1873. Settling in Moscow in 1877, he
exhibited ...
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<td>Reference
#: 147M_6B</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:Late 19th century</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Russian Pen & Ink, Ilya Repin ? (1844-1930) </td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Lewiston, NY</td></tr>
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