Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Repin in Old Age


"When [Ilya Repin] got old and his hand withering, he should have stopped on health grounds, and his family tried to stop him. They took his paints away, and when they came back from a walk one day and found that the artist dipped a cigarette in an ink well and painted on the wall. So, they gave him his paints back." --"David Jackson Talks About Ilya Repin"
Posted by James Gurney at Wednesday, November 06, 2019
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4 comments:

raffaele acquaviva said...

Wow, great story. It's like Moliere that almost died on the stage.
Thank you Mister Gurney your blog and your advices on art are amazing!

November 6, 2019 at 8:39 AM
Jim Douglas said...

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

November 6, 2019 at 10:47 AM
Shane said...

Sad that they didn't understand him better. The story that has always haunted me is the one about Anna Pavlov who refused surgery when it was discovered that she had, I believe, cancer of the hip and continued dancing to almost the very end. Her last performance was The Dying Swan where she finished the piece and it took people awhile to realize that she had actually collapsed at the end on stage.

November 7, 2019 at 1:41 AM
Roberto Quintana said...

A cigarette… I’ll have to try that! -RQ
(Wall Painting, the last refuge of a broken man;)

November 12, 2019 at 8:48 PM

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