Bidspirit auction | Repin I. Memories. Barge haulers

Repin I. Memories. Barge haulers on the Volga. With drawings by the author. - Petersburg. The sun. [1922] Edition of 2000 copies. 98 p., Fig. Size 19 x 25.5 cm. Good condition. Without binding, contamination of the title and last page. Lifetime edition. The book ”boatmen on the Volga” by Ilya Repin is an edition of the eponymous Chapter from the artist's memoirs ”Far near”, which tells about Repin's journey along the Volga river, about his impressions of the Samara province in the second half of the XIX century, about meetings with boatmen and work on the world-famous painting. The publication is richly illustrated by the works of I. Repin.