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Olga Semenova
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Olga Semenova is a Russian artist born in 1953 in Saint Petersburg. Working primarily in lithography, painting, and pigment-based printmaking, she has built a body of work notable for its blend of figurative elegance, symbolic imagery, and precise technical execution. Her prints in particular demonstrate a mastery of the lithographic medium that sets her apart from painters who treat printmaking as secondary - for Semenova, the print is a finished artwork in its own right.
Her imagery draws on a distinctive personal vocabulary: women depicted in moments of concentration or contemplation, chess boards used as compositional devices suggesting strategy and tension, animals - tigers above all - rendered with a mix of observation and stylization. These recurring figures create a coherent visual language across different media and formats. The chess motif, appearing in works such as "Kvinna vid schackbräde" (Woman at the Chessboard), one of her most frequently appearing pieces at Nordic auctions, carries a sense of quiet drama that avoids easy sentimentality.
Semenova has gallery representation in Stockholm through both Galleri Mats Bergman and the Maria Vulfovitch Gallery, the latter of which operates alongside Edition Vulfovitch Art Publishing - a Stockholm-based art publisher that has produced a series of her lithographic prints. This connection situates her firmly within a network of Russian and post-Soviet artists who established a presence in Scandinavia from the 1990s onward, building audiences among collectors with an interest in figurative work outside the mainstream of Western contemporary art.
Beyond prints, her output includes oil paintings and acrylic works on canvas, with subjects extending to Spanish-themed compositions, wildlife, and interior scenes. Works such as "White Tigers" and "Connoisseur," available as pigment prints, reflect an interest in limited-edition fine art publishing - editions that allow her imagery to circulate to a broader audience while maintaining the quality control of a signed and numbered run.
On the Nordic auction market, Semenova is traded primarily through Stockholms Auktionsverk Sickla, which accounts for the largest share of her appearances, alongside Fineart, Laholms Auktionskammare, and Lysekils Auktionsbyrå. Her most frequently sold works are colour lithographs, with "Kvinna vid schackbräde" reaching up to 1,900 SEK. Pigment prints including "White Tigers" and "Connoisseur" have sold in the range of 1,200-1,221 SEK. The auction data reflects a collector base concentrated in Sweden, with consistent demand for her print editions at accessible price points.