LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

16.5 by 14cm, 6.5 by 5.5in.

Markings:

signed with initial l.r.; further signed in Cyrillic on the reverse and dated 1897 on the stretcher, 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, Seas, Cities and Dreams: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London: Alexandria Press, 2000, p.235, p.170 illustrated; G.Caffiero and I.Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London: Alexandria Press, 2012, p.323 illustrated and listed as CS-1897-002; G.Caffiero and I.Samarine, Neizvestnyi Aivazovskii: k 200-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow: SLOVO, 2016, p.278 illustrated; p.416 illustrated and listed as CS-1897-002