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K&K - Auktionen in Heidelberg

692 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, after (Илья Ефимович Репин, после), "The Zaporozhian Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan" (Запорожские казаки пишут письмо турецкому султану), a masterful replica from around 1900 based on the original in the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, attractively framed

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€280

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Estimation

€900 - 1,200

Sale fees

28.56%

Ilya Yefimovich Repin, after (Илья Ефимович Репин, после), "The Zaporozhian Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan" (Запорожские казаки пишут письмо турецкому султану), a masterful replica from around 1900 based on the original in the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, attractively framed Ilya Yefimovich Repin, after, (Ilya Yefimovich Repin, after), 1844 Chuguyev/Kharkiv - 1930 Kuokkala, then Finland, now Repino, Leningrad Oblast, Russian painter regarded as the most significant representative of Russian Realism, here: A masterful, old replica of his famous painting ‘The Zaporozhian Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan’ (Запорожские казаки пишут письмо турецкому султану). It depicts a group of Zaporozhian Cossacks around the year 1676, laughing heartily as they devise an extremely mocking and vulgar reply to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV. The painting, measuring 2.03 × 3.58 metres and now in the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg, was begun by Repin in 1880 but not completed until 1891. Tsar Alexander III purchased it from him for 35,500 roubles. Here is a smaller-scale replica from around 1900, oil on canvas, 60 × 110 cm, attractively framed

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Auction details

306th Auction, Day 2
Saturday, November 7
10:00 AM
Rischerstrasse 3
69123 Heidelberg, Germany

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K&K - Auktionen in Heidelberg +49 6 22 18 40 840 info@auktionen-in-heidelberg.de
On Drouot for 1 year avec More than 6,000 lots published

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