St. Petersburg’s Russian Museum to send 28 Ilya Repin paintings to Finland for exhibition

ST. PETERSBURG, February 16. /TASS/. The State Russian Museum will ship 28 masterpieces by renowned Russian artist Ilya Repin to Finland in March for an exhibition organized in Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum, the museum’s press service told TASS Tuesday. "The Ilya Repin exhibition will take place in the halls of Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum between March 19 and August 29, 2021. The Russian Museum sends 28 paintings from its collections to Finland. The Helsinki exhibition will feature Repin’s acclaimed masterpieces such as Barge Haulers on the Volga, Sadko [in the Underwater Kingdom], Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, What Freedom!, Demonstration on October 17, 1905, as well as a few portraits and Preparation for the Examination, which Repin described as his first painting," the press service noted. The exhibition will also feature graphic pieces, portraits of the artist’s family members, religious works and city landscapes. The Russian Museum will temporarily display other works by the painter while his most celebrated are away. Ilya Repin (1844-1930) is a Russian realist painter and an academician of St. Petersburg’s Imperial Academy of Arts. He is known as a portraitist and author of historic paintings and works depicting ordinary life. The Repin exhibition in Helsinki is planned as part of the series of projects commemorating his 175th anniversary. Two main anniversary exhibitions were held in Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum in 2019. Read more