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OLGA LAGODA-SHISHKINA (1850-1881) Forest at midday

Lotto 74
5 0007 000
signed in Cyrillic ‘O A Lagoda’ (lower right) oil on canvas 80.6 x 70.2 cm Provanance: Christie’s London, Russian Art, 13.06.2007, lot 15 Private collection Olga Lagoda-Shishkina was a Russian landscape artist, pupil and second wife of Ivan Shishkin. After the untimely death of his wife, Ivan Shishkin wrote in response to condolences from one of his friends: ‘If you had seen all her albums, drawings, sketches and unfinished paintings, you would have been overcome with indescribable delight – neither we in the past nor any artist today could have dreamed of what she accomplished!’


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