Russian culture abroad: Ivan Shishkin’s etchings go on show in the Crimea

On January 18th 2012 M. P. Kroshitsky Art Museum of Sevastopol staged an exhibition of etchings by the Russian artist Ivan Shishkin.

On display are etchings which came out in 1894 as a part of a retrospective album entitled “Sixty etchings by Shishkin 1870-1892”. This album contains best works printed from plates with the whole process controlled by the artist himself.

“In 1989 Sevastopol Art Museum received an album of etchings made by Ivan Shishkin originating from the collection of a famous Leningrad collector, outstanding botanist-geographer and academician Eugeny Lavrenko. It should be stressed that there are few complete albums which have survived today. Most museums, private collections or auction house collections usually hold just separate sheets of this edition. Thus the album from the collection of Sevastopol Art Museum may be by right considered a unique one and extremely interesting”, Lyudmila Smirnova, the exhibition’s curator, highlighted.

The exhibition of Ivan Shishkin’s etchings celebrates the artist’s 180th birth anniversary and will run at the museum till April.