#Ivan Aivazovsky 'Moonlit Night'

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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.

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A Moonlit Night at Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Ivan Aivazovsky | Moonlit Night on the Dnieper (1887)

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Ivan Aivazovsky - Chapel by the Coast on a Moonlit Night (1851)

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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, The bay of Naples on a moonlit night. Vesuvius (Неаполитанский залив в лунную ночь. Везувий), 1840s

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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky - A Moonlit Night on the Crimean Coast

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how i waded into your grave as if trying it on,

how, when the waves came,

they gave me back

black sails (2014) / “whatever you do” by brandi carlile / moonlit night (1899) by ivan aivazovsky / “postcard from gone” by leila chatti / unknown piece by peter wever / “upon realizing there are ghosts in the water” by leila chatti / “figure carrying skeleton” by eric macleod / honeybee by trista mateer

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You put the fun into dysfunction

Hold Me Like A Grudge // Ivan Aivazovsky, Wave, 1889 + A Moonlit Night At Sea

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Steamship on a moonlit night, by Ivan Aivazovsky 1884

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Ivan Aivazovsky - A Moonlit Night at Sea, 1885 oil on canvas, 83 cm (32.6 in) x 135 cm (53.1 in) Private collection The moon frequently features in Aivazovsky’s works, adding an intense amount of drama to his darker, more monotone seascapes. In the present work, the moon itself is hidden behind ominous clouds but its cool light illuminates the beach to reveal a small boat washed ashore and two steamships in the background. This masterwork is a stunning example of Aivazovsky’s adept talent in depicting light.

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Ivan Aivazovsky

Storm at Sea on a Moonlit Night

1866

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Title: Moonlit Night on the Bosphorus

Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky

Date: 1894

Style: Romanticism

Genre: Cityscape

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A Moonlit Night on the Crimean Coast by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Storm at Sea on a Moonlit Night, 1866

Ivan Aivazovsky

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Ivan Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817–1900) detail of Storm at Sea on a Moonlit Night

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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, A moonlit night on the Bosphorus (Лунная ночь на Босфоре), 1894