LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

15.5 by 25.5cm, 6¼ by 10in.

Markings:

signed with initial l.r.; further signed in Cyrillic and dated 1898 on the reverse, The present work is included in the numbered archive of the artist's work compiled by Gianni Caffiero and Ivan Samarine.

Literature:

G.Caffiero and I.Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London: Alexandria Press, 2012, p.247, pl.182 illustrated; p.324 illustrated and listed as CS-1898-004; G.Caffiero and I.Samarine, Neizvestnyi Aivazovskii: k 200-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow: SLOVO, 2016, pp.284-285 illustrated; p.419 illustrated and listed as CS-1898-004

Provenance:

Sotheby's London, <em>Russian Art Paintings</em>, 25 November 2008, lot 401