MacDougall’s Have the Top Lot of London’s "Russian Week", Early Masterpiece by Ivan Shishkin

LONDON.- MacDougall’s have the star lot of London’s “Russian Week”. Ivan Shishkin’s early masterpiece, View of Valaam Island, Kukko (est. £900,000–1,200,000) will be on sale at MacDougall’s Russian Art Auction on 2 December. This painting is the most expensive Russian work offered by the four auction houses holding specialist Russian art sales during the first week of December. Shishkin exhibited two versions of the composition at the Imperial Academy of Arts exhibition in 1860, for which he was awarded the large gold medal. The smaller version of the work is now at the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg. MacDougall’s Russian Art Auctions in London on 1-2 December 2010 will present a superb selection of significant works by important Russian artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Natalia

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