The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum will be premiering “Ukrainian Woman,” an oil painting by Ilya Repin (1844-1930), a realist painter who is described as one of the most famous artists of 19th-century Russia. Formerly owned by a Japanese painter, the work is only the second Repin painting in the possession of a museum in Japan after “Russian Boy” possessed by the Yokohama Museum of Art. The work is considered to be his study that depicts a Ukrainian woman who appears in his masterpiece “Evening Party” (The State Tretyakov Gallery). While measuring just 18.4 x 9.8 cm, “Ukrainian Woman” captures a young woman, eyes set and dressed in folk attire, in the middle of a dance step.
