"The face and soul of man, the drama of life, the impressions of nature, its life and meaning, the spirit of history—these are our themes," wrote Repin, who was celebrated as a master even during his ...

The great artist produced over 20 portraits, studies and sketches of the great writer. Let's take a look at this creative symbiosis. It was a long-standing friendship and, at the same time, the two ...

Ilya Repin has long been considered one of the masters of Europe’s late-19 th-century Realist painting tradition. Yet he did not merely copy what he saw. Rather, he reincarnated the scene with an ...

A famous work by Russian realist painter Ilya Repin was vandalized by a visitor at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery on May 25. Ivan The Terrible And His Son Ivan On November 16th, 1581, a painting dating ...

Ilya Repin’s Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885) will be the glaring omission from the New Tretyakov Gallery’s vast survey of 180 paintings and 130 graphic works by the Russian artist opening ...

The Finnish news site Suomen Kuvalehti reported this significant change. In 2021 Repin was listed as a Russian artist, although with an addition that he was born on the territory of modern Ukraine.

When violinist Vadim Repin made his Seattle debut a decade ago during the inaugural season of that dazzling meteor, the Seattle International Music Festival, he was slightly awkward and very young, ...