Realism

Portrait of Arkhip Kuinji

An outstanding Russian portraitist, Ilya Repin generally confined himself to images of relatives and friends in the 1870s. One of the most outstanding works from this period is his portrait of the famous Russian landscapist Arkhip Kuinji. The portrait was painted over a period of only a few days at Kuinji ’s apartment on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg, where Repin was living as a guest in th...

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Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin

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...

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Portrait of Ivan Shishkin

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...

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Goutweed, Pargolovo

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...

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Brook in a Birch Forest

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, ...

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Midday, In the Environs of Moscow

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...

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Rye

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 ...

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Winter

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...

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Oaks

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...

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Before a Storm

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...

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