Birch Grove, 1889 by Isaac Ilyich Levitan
Canvas Print - 8009-LEV

Location: The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Original Size: 28 x 50 cm
Birch Grove, 1889 | Isaac Levitan | Giclée Canvas Print
Birch Grove | Isaac Levitan, 1889 | Giclée Canvas Print

Giclée Canvas Print | $52.38 USD

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SKU:8009-LEV
Print Size12.6 x 21.7 in
Total Size15 x 24 in
Condition: Unframed (Ships Rolled)
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"Birch Grove" will be custom-printed for your order using the latest giclée printing technology. This technique ensures that the Canvas Print captures an exceptional level of detail, showcasing vibrant and vivid colors with remarkable clarity.

Our use of the finest quality, fine-textured canvas lends art reproductions a painting-like appearance. Combined with a satin-gloss coating, it delivers exceptional print outcomes, showcasing vivid colors, intricate details, deep blacks, and impeccable contrasts. The canvas structure is also highly compatible with canvas stretching frames, further enhancing its versatility.

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Painting Information

The first thing that strikes the eye in this 1889 woodland scene is its vibrant play of greens and luminous sunlight. Soft glimmers of gold swirl among the emerald leaves, creating the impression that each shaft of brightness has been carefully caught and pinned to the canvas. Flecks of violet and blue emerge in the deeper shadows, cooling down the heat of the midday sun. Rather than being vivid or brash, these cooler accents provide pockets of respite, suggesting an atmosphere of fresh, breeze-laden air. There is a remarkable sense of tangibility in these colors - as if one might step forward and feel the tickle of grass beneath the foot.

Yet these bright hues do not merely seduce the eye; they also reveal the deliberate design of the composition. From the foreground into the distant corners, slender birches stand as vertical markers. These trunks - elongated streaks of soft ivory speckled with dark browns - encourage the viewer’s gaze to wander deeper into the woodland. This steady procession of birch trees has an almost musical cadence, as if each tree assumes its note in a forest sonata. In this way, the painting’s structure strikes an unexpected balance: it is at once expansive and intimate, inviting us to contemplate the quiet depths of the summer grove while offering ample space for the eye to rove.

A particular hallmark of the artist’s method in this work is the impressionistic vigor that animates every brushstroke. Short, almost flickering touches of paint describe leaves in motion, as though each small patch of color vibrates in sympathy with rustling foliage. The birch trunks themselves shift between near-translucent pale tones and warm, earthy notes, showing off the painter’s aptitude for subtle tonal transitions. Such an approach ensures that neither the leaves nor the bark appear static - they seem alive, rippling in sun and shadow.

Contemporaries recognized these qualities as part of a broader “landscape-mood” style emerging in Russia at the time. While realism remained a prevalent force, there was a parallel impulse to capture the soul of a scene - that “divine something, spilled everywhere” - in the painterly treatment of light, color, and mood. This vision, described as revealing “the modest and intimate” in the land, finds a resonant expression here: a quiet grove that thrums with hidden vitality, wrapped in summer’s fleeting hush.

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