The Ilya Repin Exhibition
first edition Hardbound
1921 · New York
by Brinton, Dr. Christian
New York: Kilgore Galleries, 1921. First, limited to 3,000 copies. Hardbound. Good, ex-library with typical markings, slight damp stain along top edge.. Navy boards, [59], 13 bw plates. Contains a biography, a catalogue of his works, and 13 illustrations of his works.
From the jacket of another book about him--Ilya Repin was Russia's foremost artist of the nineteenth century, yet his life and work are little known outside of that country. His great talent established realism as the national painting style, and the reverence for his work was so strong among the general public that when one of his paintings was slashed, the desecration occasioned nationwide outrage. Yet because Stalinist Russia canonized him as precursor and exemplar for Socialist Realism, Repin's vibrant and masterly works have been largely ignored in the West. (Inventory #: 128281)
From the jacket of another book about him--Ilya Repin was Russia's foremost artist of the nineteenth century, yet his life and work are little known outside of that country. His great talent established realism as the national painting style, and the reverence for his work was so strong among the general public that when one of his paintings was slashed, the desecration occasioned nationwide outrage. Yet because Stalinist Russia canonized him as precursor and exemplar for Socialist Realism, Repin's vibrant and masterly works have been largely ignored in the West. (Inventory #: 128281)