#Ivan Aivazovsky

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Greatest marine painter of all time. The indigos, blacks, and the pale green light effects are enchanting. They suck you in like the very tides you see in this work. And this was achieved without cameras. Aivazovsky was known to paint without the use of sketches. Utterly amazing.

EDIT: Oops. Just reading about Aivazovsky, and he did use sketches. He sketched frequently, then created the final painting from memory.

The Black Sea at Night, Ivan Aivazovsky

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-The Bay Golden Horn-

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Tempest on the sea at night (1849) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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And the Spirit of God Moved on the Face of the Waters (Ivan Aivazovsky, 1817 - 1900)

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Take me to the end of the world.

Ships on a misty morning, by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817–1900)

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Ivan Aivazovsky - Travel of Poseidon by sea (1894)

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Ivan Aivazovsky: View of Constantinople by Evening Light (1884)

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Chaos. The Genesis — by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Winter in Ukraine by Ivan Aivazovsky. 1874.

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Storm on the Azov Sea (Detail), 1887. Oil on canvas — Ivan Aivazovsky (Russian-Armenian, 1817-1900)

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Approaching Storm: Beach Near Newport – Martin Johnson Heade (detail) // Stormy Sea with Capsizing Ship – Robert Kummer // Stormy Sea with Lighthouse – Carl Blechen // Stormy Sea – Ivan Ayvazovsky // Landscape – Florence + the Machine

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Ivan Aivazovsky - The Black Sea at night (1879)

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-Sea view with chapel-

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Hurricane at the Sea (1850) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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The Ninth Wave (Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850)

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Moscow Auction House Sells a $1 Million Painting Stolen from a Ukrainian Museum

In Russia, Ukrainian artist Ivan Aivazovsky’s painting “Moonlit Night” has been put up for auction, according to Ukraine’s former Deputy Attorney General and Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Gyunduz Mamedov, who has reported the auction plans.

Russia’s looting and destruction of Ukrainian museums and cultural heritage sites have resulted in significant losses, with nearly 40 museums plundered and almost 700 heritage sites damaged or destroyed since the invasion began in February 2022, causing cultural losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros.

The first report that “Moonlit Night” will be the main lot of the auction, which will take place at the Moscow Auction House on 18 February, appeared on the Telegram channel by Russia’s state-funded news agency RIA Novosti, noting that the painting was estimated at 100 million rubles (approximately $1.09 million) before the sale.

‘In 2017, [Interpol], at the request of [Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Crimea], put the paintings on the international wanted list. Thus, Russia openly disregards [international law], as according to the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the export of cultural properties and transfer of ownership is prohibited,” Mamedov emphasized on X.

In 2014, during the early stages of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, Aivazovsky’s painting “Moonlit Night” was illegally transferred to the Simferopol Art Museum, along with 52 other artworks.

In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some of his works were destroyed in an airstrike on the Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol, and others were looted by Russian forces from Mariupol and Kherson museums, including “The Storm Subsides,” which was moved to the Central Taurida Museum in Simferopol, Crimea.