IVAN KONSTANTINOVICH AIVAZOVSKY | SAILING SHIP ON A CALM SEA BY MOONLIGHT

Auction Closed

November 26, 01:34 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

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IVAN KONSTANTINOVICH AIVAZOVSKY

1817-1900

SAILING SHIP ON A CALM SEA BY MOONLIGHT

signed with initial l.r.; further signed in Cyrillic on the reverse and dated 1897 on the stretcher

oil on canvas

16.5 by 14cm, 6½ by 5½in.

The present work is included in the numbered archive of the artist's work compiled by Gianni Caffiero and Ivan Samarine.

G.Caffiero and I.Samarine, Seas, Cities and Dreams: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London: Alexandria Press, 2000, p.235, p.170 illustrated

G.Caffiero and I.Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London: Alexandria Press, 2012, p.323 illustrated and listed as CS-1897-002

G.Caffiero and I.Samarine, Neizvestnyi Aivazovskii: k 200-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow: SLOVO, 2016, p.278 illustrated; p.416 illustrated and listed as CS-1897-002