Repin's "Portrait of a Persian Woman" is up for auction for 60 million rubles

December 10th. /MEDIA TALK/. On December 15, the Moscow Auction House will host the Auction of the Year, which will feature a collection of works by outstanding Russian artists of the XIX - first half of the XX centuries. Among the most expensive lots are the works of Ilya Repin. The "Portrait of a Persian Woman", which was a sketch for the painting "Sadko in the underwater kingdom", was exhibited for 60 million rubles. Another work by the artist "Landscape with birches" will be offered for $45 million. Such data is provided by Interfax with reference to the press service of the auction house.


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The "Portrait of a Persian Woman" was originally acquired in the early 20th century for the collection of Knut Littorin, director of the Nobel Brothers oil company. In 2016, the painting was first presented to the public at the Bukowskis auction in Helsinki, where it was sold for 400 thousand euros, three times higher than the estimate (the initial estimate of the auction house).

According to the results of the Auction of the year, the turnover of Russian auction houses in 2024 may exceed 2 billion rubles.