Ilya Repin
Ilya Repin is a Ukrainian-born Russian Naturalist oil painting artist. born 1844 - died 1930. Also known as: Il'ja Efimovic Repin, Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin, Il'ya Yefimovich Repin. The powerful “Volga Bargemen” (1873) epitomizes the stark realism and socially critical cast of much of Repin’s work, which was to serve as a model for Socialist Realist painting in the Soviet Union. He also did vigorous portraits of his great Russian contemporaries, such as Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Glinka, and Modest Mussorgsky. Repin oil paintings reproduction available now
