Discover Painter Ilya Repin Anew
This show of his works reveals unexpected sides of his oeuvre. In Besieged Moscow, 1812 (1912) by Ilya Repin State Tretyakov Gallery
Ilya Repin is best known as a realist painter, whose portraits of writer Leo Tolstoy and canvases such as “Barge Haulers on the Volga” and “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks” represented Russia to the world.
But the show “Ilya Repin: Known and Unknown”
at the State Tretyakov Gallery invites you to forget all that or remember and then marvel at the unexpected sides of the artist’s work presented here.
This compact show brings together over 30 pieces combining the lesser-known works from the gallery’s own holdings with those loaned from private collections and rarely, if ever, accessible to the public. It includes a short documentary presenting the torturous history and the currently ongoing restoration work on Repin’s signature “Ivan the Terrible