ILYA EFIMOVITCH REPIN 1844-1930 The Temptation of Christ The reverse with signed authentifications by the artist's son Yuri, dated 1931, and his daughter Vera, dated 1932, oil on canvas, 47 x 60 cm. PROVENANCE: The artist's estate, Kuokkola This freely executed and vibrant oil sketch relates to an enormous ((293 x 526cm.) picture Repin worked on in the 1890s, called Get thee behind me, Satan! which was exhibited at the Society of Itinerant Painters exhibition of 1901. The painting itself was destroyed by fire in Kharkov during the Second World War. Other sketches for the same painting are in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow the Musée des Beaux Art in Calais and in a private collection in Prague. For the version in the Tretyakov see Sternin et al., Ilya Repin, Aurora, Leningrad, 1985, cat. 260.
ILYA EFIMOVITCH REPIN 1844-1930 The Temptation of Christ The reverse with signed authentifications by the artist's son Yuri, dated 1931, and his daughter Vera, dated 1932, oil on canvas, 47 x 60 cm. PROVENANCE: The artist's estate, Kuokkola This freely executed and vibrant oil sketch relates to an enormous ((293 x 526cm.) picture Repin worked on in the 1890s, called Get thee behind me, Satan! which was exhibited at the Society of Itinerant Painters exhibition of 1901. The painting itself was destroyed by fire in Kharkov during the Second World War. Other sketches for the same painting are in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow the Musée des Beaux Art in Calais and in a private collection in Prague. For the version in the Tretyakov see Sternin et al., Ilya Repin, Aurora, Leningrad, 1985, cat. 260.
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