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This painting belongs to the “reclusive” period in the art of Arkhip Kuinji, who stopped contributing to exhibitions after 1882. The artist did not show any new works to the public, preferring instea...
Arkhip Kuinji ’s last major painting was an elegiac and contemplative image of nature by night. The decorative tones combine harmoniously with the expressive and rhythmic outlines. A sense of calm an...
Arkhip Kuinji ’s painting sums up the development of the motif of the road and the landscape in the age of Critical Realism. In such works, a large portion of the canvas was traditionally occupied by...
Arkhip Kuinji brilliantly conveyed unusual states of nature. In this landscape, enveloped in thick mist, he is drawn to the effect of the illusion of objects dissolving in space. The sky merges with ...
Arkhip Kuinji ’s canvas opens a series of north Russian landscapes painted in the direct aftermath of visits to Balaam. This picturesque island in the north of Lake Ladoga is home to the Balaam Monas...
Ivan Shishkin had a masterly command of the art of quill drawing and addressed etching and lithography early in his career. The motif of this particular drawing is unique to his oeuvre and virtually ...
Ilya Repin claimed that this portrait of fellow Realist artist Ivan Shishkin was painted in St Petersburg “in two sittings, with intervals”. This explains why there are two inscriptions in the bottom...
This portrait of Ivan Shishkin occupies a prominent place in the famous gallery of Russian artists, composers and writers painted by Ivan Kramskoi. The two men were good friends and their closeness i...
Ivan Shishkin ’s principle was no approximation in the representation of nature. This particular study demonstrates his ability to depict life with almost photographic precision, revealing the beauty...
Ivan Shishkin painted this work at the cape of Lisy Nos (“Fox’s Nose”) near the Gulf of Finland in the summer of 1856, when he was in his first year at the Imperial Academy of Arts. The picture combi...