Property from a Private Collection, United Kingdom
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
Venice, San Giorgio Maggiore
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Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection, United Kingdom
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
Feodosia 1817–1900
Venice, San Giorgio Maggiore
signed in Cyrillic and dated lower left: I. Aivazovskii / 1847.
oil on canvas
unframed: 39.5 x 57 cm.; 15½ x 22⅜ in.
framed: 53.5 x 70.5 cm.; 21 x 27¾ 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, 19 April 1999, lot 42;
Where acquired by a private European collector;
By whom sold ('Property of a European Nobleman'), London, Sotheby's, 19 May 2005, lot 7;
Where acquired by the present owner.
G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Seas, Cities and Dreams: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London 2000, reproduced in colour p. 168, pl. 112 (detail);
G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London 2012, p. 270, no. CS-1847-001, reproduced in colour p. 88, pl. 7 and p. 270;
G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Neizvestnyi Aivazovskii: k 200-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow 2016, p. 313, no. CS-1847-001, reproduced in colour pp. 32 and 313.
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