Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I

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Property from a Private Collection

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

Breaking Wave

Auction Closed

July 6, 10:53 AM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection


Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

Feodosia 1817–1900

Breaking Wave


signed in Cyrillic and dated lower left: Aivazovskii 1895

oil on canvas

unframed: 61.4 x 99 cm.; 24 x 39 in.

framed: 95 x 132.5 cm.; 37½ x 52 in.

With Hammer Galleries, New York;

Alexander S. Chiger, New Jersey;

By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 22 February 1989, lot 185;

Where acquired by the present collector.

F. I. Bulgakov, Al'bom 120-i vystavki kartin I. K. Aivazovskogo, 1896, reproduced pl. 6;

S. Khachatrian, Aivazovsky: Well-Known and Unknown, Samara 2000, reproduced in colour p. 150;

G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Seas, Cities and Dreams: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London 2000, reproduced in colour p. 129, no. 78;

S. Khachatrian, Hovhannes/Ivan Aivazovsky, Yerevan 2011, reproduced in colour p. 257;

G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London 2012, reproduced in colour p. 321, no. CS-1885-002;

S. Khachatrian, Aivazovsky: Well-Known and Unknown, Samara 2013, reproduced in colour p. 92;

S. Khachatrian, Know and Love Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Yerevan 2012, reproduced in colour p. 150;

G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Neizvestnyi Aivazovskii: k 200-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow 2016, p. 413, no. CS-1885-002, reproduced in colour pp. 272 and 413;

S. Khachatrian, Aivazovsky, Yerevan 2017, reproduced in colour p. 98;

S. Khachatrian, Aivazovsky. 200th Anniversary, Yerevan 2017, reproduced in colour p. 90.

St Petersburg, Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, 1895–96.


 

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