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Please note that the date is postponed to May, 19 2021
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LOT 225:
Ivan Shishkin
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Sold for: 100p
Start price:
100
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Estimated price :
700p - 900p
Buyer's Premium: 15%
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Ivan Shishkin
Leningrad, Aurora Publishing House, 1971
182 pages, colour illustrations, 21.5 by 26.5 cm
In Publisher's hardcover with book jacket in very good condition.
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was born in Elabuga, Vyatka province - the land of the harsh and mighty Kama forests. Childhood impressions determined the character of the future artist and engendered in him an enduring love for the Russian forest. For Shishkin, reality has always been a source of creative impulse: he treated the manifestations of the life of nature with almost reverence. The painter believed that "a painting from nature should be without fantasies" and that "nature should be sought in all its simplicity.
Richly illustrated. Russian, English, French and German Edition.
