Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

Heavy Seas

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December 3, 07:54 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

Feodosia 1817–1900

Heavy Seas

signed and dated lower right: J. Aivazovsky / 1889

oil on canvas

89 x 132 cm.; 35⅜ x 52 in.

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

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 May 2004, lot 64;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 19 May 2005, lot 41;

Where acquired by the present owner.

G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London 2012, p. 315, no. CS-1889-003, reproduced pp. 220 and 315;

G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Neizvestnyi Aivazovskii: k 200-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow 2016, p. 401, no. CS-1889-003, reproduced pp. 250 and 401;

Ivan Aivazovskii. Vzglyad iz XXI veka / Vasilii Vereshchagin: Bol'she chem khudozhnik: Materyali nauchnikh konferentsii, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 2019, pp. 114–115 (titled Otkrytoe more) and reproduced on the supplementary CD.