Russian Pictures

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

View of Sevastopol from the Northern Bank

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December 1, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

1817 - 1900

View of Sevastopol from the Northern Bank

signed with initial l.m.

oil on panel

Panel: 19.5 by 30cm, 7¾ by 11¾in.

Framed: 34.5 by 43.5cm, 13½ by 17½in.

A gift from the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet to Vice Admiral Alexei Peshchurov on 30 December 1890

Vsemirnaya illyustratsiya, no.1154, 1891, p.166, pl.17 illustrated
F.Bulgakov, Novye kartiny Aivazovskogo, St Petersburg, 1891, pl.18 illustrated

St Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Arts, 1891