WATER LILIES (NYMPHAEAS) D.A. LISHCHENKO, 1925

D.A. Lishchenko was a representative of the Russian painting school of the first half of the 20th century, whose work continued the traditions of Russian landscape painting of the late 19th – early 20th century, tracing back to the aesthetics of Isaac Levitan, Alexei Savrasov, and late Russian Impressionists. The 1920s in Soviet Russia were a period when landscape, despite social and ideological shifts, retained its position as an independent genre, expressing lyricism and contemplative moods.
The motif of water lilies, well known in European and Russian painting, symbolized harmony, purity, and natural renewal. In Russian artistic tradition, it is closely associated with quiet forest lakes, village ponds, and secluded corners of nature. Unlike Western European interpretations — the most famous being Claude Monet’s Water Lilies — in Russian works of the 1920s, emphasis was placed on the material tangibility of forms and rich color combinations, reflecting the peculiarities of northern light and seasonal palette.
In Lishchenko’s work, one feels the synthesis of the academic school with the freedom of Impressionist brushwork. The artist subtly uses water reflections, the contrast of white flowers and deep blue of the pond, creating an image of peaceful solitude and meditative calm. Today, such works are valued by collectors as rare examples of post-revolutionary landscape painting that preserved continuity with pre-revolutionary traditions.

The work is in good collector’s condition, with no paint loss, the frame is intact, with a light patina of age.

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