The Life and Art of Ilya Repin

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To coincide with a new revised edition of his book, The Russian Vision: The Art of Ilya Repin, Professor David Jackson, from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, speaks on the life and art of artist Ilya Repin as part of London Russian Art Week.

Ilya Repin (1844-930) was one of the greatest artists of Russian nineteenth-century painting. With his career spanning a period of huge cultural, social and political change, his art bore witness to the challenge to the Russian autocracy, the coming of the October Revolution and the dawn of the Soviet Union.

In the midst of this year’s London Russian Art Week, David Jackson  surveys the power of Repin’s work, its intensity and beauty, with an illustrated presentation on the artist’s life and art.

This event takes place on Wednesday 2 December at Waterstones’ London Piccadilly store. It is free to attend: please reserve your place by email: Piccadilly@waterstones.com

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The Russian Vision: The Art of Ilya Repin presents the life and work of the most celebrated Russian painted of his generation. A comprehensive survey of Repin's oeuvre, featuring a wealth of little-seen paintings; dramatic, distinctive images that evoke the hardships, pleasures and everyday routines of Russian society in the twilight years of Tsarist rule. Having declined in the twentieth century, Repin's reputation is growing again. Combining close readings of all his major canvases, as well as many of his lesser-known works, within the broader context of Russian art, society and culture, written in an accessible style, David Jackson's book, featuring more than 100 colour plates of Repin’s work, and telling the story of his life, will do much to help restore his stature.

The Russian Vision: The Art of Ilya Repin is published in hardback by Antique Collectors' Club (Revised edition, 30 September 2015).