Russian Pictures
Russian Pictures
Ilya Efimovich Repin
The Solar Eclipse of 1887, Mendeleev in his Hot-Air Balloon
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November 30, 02:40 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Ilya Efimovich Repin
1844 - 1930
The Solar Eclipse of 1887, Mendeleev in his Hot-Air Balloon
signed in Cyrillic l.l.
watercolour and pencil on paper
Sheet: 43 by 35cm, 17 by 13¾in.
Framed: 64 by 55.5cm, 25 by 21¾in.
Executed in 1887
Collection of Armand Hammer (1898-1990), USA
Exhibition catalogue Katalog vystavki kartin, portretov, eskizov i etyudov I.E. Repina, St Petersburg, 1891, p.2, no.43 listed as Solnechnoe zatmenie v 1887 godu, (Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev na aerostate)
I.Grabar, Repin: ot pervykh portretov epokhi rastsveta do poslednikh tvorcheskikh let, vol.2, Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1937, p.2 listed under works from 1887
I.Grabar, Repin: ot pervykh portretov epokhi rastsveta do poslednikh tvorcheskikh let, vol.2, Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1937, p.2 listed under works from 1887