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After graduating from the Art School of Kazan in 1900, Fechin went to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under Ilya Repin, a leading artist of the Russian Realist movement. During ...

Is there something more iconic for Paris than its bistros? Let’s have a closer look at the artistic representations of bistros, characteristic French pubs, restaurants, or better “cafés,” as ...

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Between 1883 and 1885, the young Russian painter Ilya Repin painted his most famous work ... to have been inspired by the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, which the artist had lived through ...

Great paintings from art history were also on Hellem’s mind when conceiving “The Fisherman’s Fight, most notably from Ilya Repin’s “Barge Haulers on the Volga.” Also on view in this ...