Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I
Property from a Private Collection
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.