
Ilya Efimovich REPIN
1844–1930, Ukraine/Finland/Russia
Also known as: IR

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, Portrait with laughing Cossack, signed "I. Repin" with Cyrillic letters, 55x45 cm. Ostensibly picturing a genuine painting by the Russian artist Ilya Efimovich Repin. The painting is part of a major fraud cases from 2003 in Finland with several people involved. This painting was for sale for Euro 52,000. After expert investigation and judgment declared that this painting was not genuine. It was a forgery.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas. Sold at an auction house in Stockholm. The buyer return the painting and want to leave it back when he suspects that it is not genuine. Auction house withdraws the painting and replaces the purchaser. Police were called who takes the painting seized. After an investigation and expert judgment declared that the painting is not genuine. It is a forgery.

Signature proven counterfeit
Watercolour, Portrait of a young man, signed "I Repin 1903", 24x30 cm. The painting had been submitted to an auction house in Stockholm for sale via the internet. The submitter did not provide data about the painting or the artist, but stated that it was an heirlooms from the father. The auction house considered that the painting would be examined by expert regarding authenticity. It was noted immediately that the painting was not done by the the Russian artist Ilya Repin - it was a forgery, however, with a well-made signature. The painting was handed over to the police and after further investigation and judgment of the court has the painting been forfeited.

Signature proven counterfeit
Oljemålning på duk, porträtt av en ung kvinna, signerad "I. Repin" med kyrilliska bokstäver. Skenbart föreställande en äkta målning utförd av den Ryska konstnären Ilya Efimovich Repin. Målningen ingår i ett av de många bedrägerifall som polisen tog i beslag under slutet av 1990-talet och början av 2000-talet i Danmark. Efter expertutredning och dom förklarades att denna målning inte var äkta. Det var en förfalskning.

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Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin Biography:
Ilya Efimovich Repin was born in the town of Chuguev near Kharkov in the heart of the historical region called Sloboda Ukraine. His parents were Russian military settlers. In 1866, after apprenticeship with a local icon painter named Bunakov and preliminary study of portrait painting, he went to Saint Petersburg and was shortly admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student. From 1873 to 1876 on the Academy's allowance, Repin sojourned in Italy and lived in Paris, where he was exposed to French Impressionist painting, which had a lasting effect upon his use of light and colour. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never became an impressionist himself. Throughout his career, he was drawn to the common people from whom he himself traced his origins, and he frequently painted country folk, both Ukrainian and Russian, though in later years he also painted members of the Imperial Russian elite, the intelligentsia, and the aristocracy, including Tsar Nicholas II.
The itinerants
In 1878, Repin joined the free-thinking "Association of Peredvizhniki Artists", generally called "the Wanderers" or "The Itinerants" in English, who, at about the time of Repin's arrival in the capital, rebelled against the academic formalism of the official Academy. His fame was established by his painting of the "Volga Barge Haulers", a work which portrayed the hard lot of these poor folk but which was not without hope for the youth of Russia. From 1882 he lived in Saint Petersburg but did visit his Ukrainian homeland and on occasion made tours abroad.
Historical and contemporary subjects
Beginning shortly before the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, he painted a series of pictures dealing with the theme of the Russian revolutionary movement: "Refusal to Confess", "Arrest of a Propagandist", "The Meeting", and "They did not Expect Him", the last of which is undoubtedly his masterpiece on the subject, mixing contrasting psychological moods and Russian and Ukrainian national motifs. His large-scale "Religious Procession in the Province of Kursk" is sometimes considered an archetype of the "Russian national style" displaying various social classes and the tensions among them set within the context of a traditional religious practice and united by a slow but relentless forward movement.
In 1885, Repin completed one of his most psychologically intense paintings, Ivan the Terrible and his Son. This canvas displayed a horrified Ivan embracing his dying son, whom he had just struck and mortally wounded in an uncontrolled fit of rage. The visage of terrified Ivan is in marked contrast with that of his calm, almost Christlike son.
One of Repin's most complex paintings, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire occupied many years of his life. He conceived this painting as a study in laughter, but also believed that it involved the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity; in short, Cossack republicanism. Begun in the late 1870s, it was only completed in 1891, and, ironically, was immediately purchased by the Tsar. The Tsar paid 35,000 rubles for the painting, an enormous amount for that time.
During his maturity, Repin painted many of his most celebrated compatriots, including the novelist Leo Tolstoy, the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, the imperial official Pobedonostsev, the composer Mussorgsky, the philanthropist Pavel Tretyakov, and the Ukrainian poet and painter, Taras Shevchenko.
In 1903, he was commissioned by the Russian government to paint his most grandiose design, a 400x877 cm canvas representing a ceremonial session of the State Council of Imperial Russia.
Later life
Repin himself designed his home Penaty (literally, "the Penates") or the Roman "Household Gods", located just to the north of Saint Petersburg in Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland. After the 1917 October Revolution, Finland declared independence. He was invited by various Soviet institutions to come back to his homeland but refused the invitation giving the excuse that he was too old to make the journey. During this period, Repin devoted much time to painting religious subjects, though his treatment of these was usually innovative and not traditional. With the exception of a portrait of Provisional Government head, Alexander Kerensky, he never painted anything substantial on the subject of the 1917 revolutions or the Soviet experiment that followed. His last painting, a joyous and exuberant canvas called "The Hopak", was on a Ukrainian Cossack theme. In 1930, he died in Kuokkala, Finland. After the Continuation War Kuokkala was ceded to the Soviet Union and was renamed Repino (Leningrad Oblast). The Penates are part of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. In 1940, Penaty was opened for the public as a house museum. Alexander Glazunov's Oriental Rhapsody, Op. 29 (1889) is dedicated to Ilya Repin. (From Wikipedia)
Учился в Рисовальной школе Общества поощрения художников у Р.К. Жуковского и И.Н. Крамского, затем в Академии художеств (1864-1871) в Петербурге. Член Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок (с 1878).
Работы художника находятся в ГТГ, ГРМ, во многих других музейных собраниях.
Source: http://sovcom.ru/index.php?category=painters&painterstype=painter&painter=781

Caricature Of The Artist (1868)

Scen From An Opera

The Pianist Gartewelt (1915)

A Sitting Cossack

Portrait Of Isaak Brodsky's Sister (1914)

Kiosk (1874)

Portrait Of Natalia Maksimova (1924)

A Young Girl At Prayer (1896)

Portrait Of Boris Alexandrovich Lazarevsky (1915)

Volsk (1870)

Cape Of Good Hope (-23)

Portrait Of Yelena Neratova (1906)

View By Shiryaevo

A Resting Wanderer (1888)

Portrait Of The Writer Boris Aleksandrovich Lazarevsky (1906)

Portrait Of Vera Repina, The First Wife Of The Artist

Portrait Of Leo Tolstoi

Repin's Godmother Marfa Vasilievna Radova

Portrait Of A Woman (1874)

Study For The Painting "hunting In The Old Days

Cossack, Mitrofan (1880)

Kosackerna Skriver Ett Hånfullt Brev Till Sultanen,

Portrait Of Trofim Petrovich Chaplygin. (1867)

Portrait Of Nadia Polezhaeva (1867)

Portrait Of A Young Girl. (1867)

Porträtt Av Ung Man

A Lush Landscape
