$123,000
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817-1900) Along the Coast, Capri Signed and dated "Aïvazovsky/1892" l. l., signed and dated similarly on the reverse, also inscribed with the artist's address "Theodossie, Crimee, Russie" on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 18 x 29 3/4 in. (45.7 x 75.7 cm), framed. Condition: Wax lined, retouch, patch reinforcements corresponding to small tears c.l., l.l., and l.r., fine craquelure, bulges in lower half of canvas, surface grime. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, Russian Art, April 21, 2005, Lot 8, as Along the Coast (collab. w/Studio) , Sotheby's London, Feb. 2, 1983, as Lot 171, to a private Rhode Island/New York collection. Literature: Gianni Caffiero and Ivan Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky , Alexandria Press, London, 2012, p. 319, item CS-1892-004. N.B. Ivan Aivazovsky is widely acknowledged as the leading figure of Russian Romanticism, admired above all for his seascapes and coastal scenes. Born to an Armenian family in Feodosia on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula, Aivazovsky was educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1837 with a gold medal. In the 1840s he travelled in Europe where he met major artists of the day including J.M.W. Turner (British, 1775-1851), whose romantic seascapes influenced the younger artist. Aivazovsky returned to Russia where he received a commission from the Russian Navy as a painter of seascapes, coastal scenes, and nav
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-01-27
