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Ivan Shishkin painted this canvas in 1883, during the most prolific period of his oeuvre. Having established his own creative method, based on an intense analytical research and portrayal of nature, ...
In 1864, when studying as a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, Ivan Shishkin dreamt of depicting the wide Russian plains and golden rye fields. In 1866, he returned home and this d...
Painted after a trip home to Yelabuga in Vyatka Province in 1877, this is one of Ivan Shishkin ’s most popular works. The motif originally appeared in a pencil sketch made in a rye field in Lekarevo ...
In the late 1880s and early 1890s, towards the end of his career, Ivan Shishkin addressed a relatively rare subject in his oeuvre – the theme of nature freezing over in winter. In this particular wor...
This work is an excellent example of Russian Realist landscape painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ivan Shishkin painted the picture in Dubki Park in Sestroretsk – a seaside resort...
One of Ivan Shishkin ’s favourite motifs was water amid greenery – whether it was a brook, a river or simply a swamp. In this painting, he subtly comprehends and poetically reproduces the tense momen...
Ivan Shishkin was an outstanding painter of the Russian woodlands who dedicated virtually his entire professional career to images of the forest. Painted during the artist’s mature period, this parti...
This portrait of Fyodor Sologub was commissioned from Boris Kustodiev in 1907 by Nikolai Ryabushinsky, editor and publisher of the Golden Fleece magazine. Five years later, in 1912, the artist also s...
In November 1913, Boris Kustodiev wrote to Fyodor Sologub : “Dear Fyodor Kuzmich ... the secretary of the World of Art ... has informed me of the desire of the Tretyakov Gallery to have the bust of y...
In 1910, Boris Kustodiev was invited to sculpt a portrait of Tsar Nicholas II for the centenary of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. The lyceum had been founded in August 1810 by Tsar Alexander I for th...