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Provenance: Acquired from the artist by I. I. and B. I. Avantso in St Petersburg in 1882.
Acquired from the above by N. D. Stakheev in Moscow.
Acquired from the above by the grandfather of the present owner while resident in St Petersburg in 1916.

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Exhibited: Paris, Palais des Champs-Elysées, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants, 1 May 1875, no. 1711.
Stockholm, Sveriges Allmnna Konstfrening (Swedish General Art Association), Utställning af Rysk Konst (Exhibition of Russian Art), 21 February-9 March 1919, no. 37.
London, 1 Belgrave Square, Exhibition of Russian Art, 4 June-13 July 1935, no. 435 (label on the reverse).
Helsinki, Art Museum of the Ateneum, Ilja Repin 1844-1930, 7 November-14 December 1980, no. 4 (label on the reverse).

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Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants, Paris, 1875, p. 249, no. 1711, as 'Un café du boulevard'.
Exhibition catalogue, Utställning af Rysk Konst, Stockholm, 1919, p. 15, no. 37, as 'Pariserkaféet' (Parisian Café).
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Russian Art, London, 1935, p. 90, no. 435, as 'Café de Paris'.
N. Morgunov, I. E. Repin, Moscow, 1924, p. 12.
S. Druzhinin, Il'ia Efimovich Repin, Moscow, 1944, p. 16.
I. Grabar, Repin, Moscow, 1948, vol. I, pp. 52, 121-124, 374, 380.
D. Sarabyanov, Il'ia Repin, Moscow, 1955, p. 17.
N. G. Maskovtsev, Il'ia Efimovich Repin, Moscow, 1957, p. VI.
I. A. Brodskii & V. N. Moskvinov ed., Novoe o Repine (New information about Repin), Leningrad, 1969, pp. 15 & 84.
Exhibition catalogue, Ilja Repin 1844-1930, Helsinki, 1980, listed p. 14, no. 4, as 'Kafé I Paris' (A café in Paris).
F. Parker & S. Parker, Ilya Repin, London, 1980, pp. 40-43, 138.
O. A. Liaskovskaia, Il'ia Efimoivch Repin: Zhizn' i Tvorchestvo (Life and Work), Moscow, 1982, illustrated p. 82, pp. 73, 80-83, 85-86, 474.
G. Churak, Ilja Jefimovich Rjepin 1844-1930, Belgrade, 1986, p. 14.
G. Iu. Sternin, Repin, Leningrad, 1985, pp. 14-15.
E. Valkenier, Ilya Repin and the World of Russian Art, New York, 1990, pp. 59-61, 64, illustrated p. 45, fig 3.1.
V. A. Leniashin, 'Repin the artist' in exhibition catalogue, Il'ia Efimovich Repin, 1844-1930: In Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of His Birth, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 1994, p. 11, illustrated p. 80, no. 58.
D. Jackson, 'Western Aesthetics and Russian Ethics: Repin in Paris 1873-76', Russian Review, vol. 57, no. 3, July 1998, pp. 394-409.
Iu. Annenkov, Dnevnik moix vstrech (Diary of my encounters), Moscow, 2001, p. 255.
D. Jackson, The Russian Vision, The Art of Ilya Repin, Schoten, 2006, illustrated p. 42, pp. 46-53, 57-58, 60, 63, 68, 71, 82, 273, 281.

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
A Parisian Café
signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian and dated 'I. Repin/in Paris/1875' (lower right), further signed 'E. Répine' (lower right)
oil on canvas
47½ x 75½ in. (120.6 x 191.8 cm.)
Painted in 1875