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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 6, 2023 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I | 131 | $****** - ****** | Breaking Wave | |||
Apr 22, 2009 | Sotheby's | New York | Russian Art | 7 | $****** - ****** | Ship In A Stormy Sea Off The Coast | |||
May 19, 2005 | Sotheby's | London | The Russian Sale | 41 | $****** - ****** | Black Sea | |||
May 26, 2004 | Sotheby's | London | Russian Pictures | 64 | $****** - ****** | Black Sea | |||
Feb 22, 1989 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th C European Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 185 | Estimates not disclosed | Shipping in rough waters |
paintings
61.4 x 99 cm (24.17 x 38.98 in)
oil on canvas
signed in Cyrillic and dated lower left: Aivazovskii 1895
With Hammer Galleries, New York;
Alexander S. Chiger, New Jersey;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby"s, 22 February 1989, lot 185;
Where acquired by the present collector.
St Petersburg, Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, 1895-96.
F. I. Bulgakov, Al"bom 120-i vystavki kartin I. K. Aivazovskogo, 1896, reproduced pl. 6;
S. Khachatrian, Aivazovsky: Well-Known and Unknown , Samara 2000, reproduced in colour p. 150;
G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Seas, Cities and Dreams: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky , London 2000, reproduced in colour p. 129, no. 78;
S. Khachatrian, Hovhannes/Ivan Aivazovsky , Yerevan 2011, reproduced in colour p. 257;
G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky , London 2012, reproduced in colour p. 321, no. CS-1885-002;
S. Khachatrian, Aivazovsky: Well-Known and Unknown , Samara 2013, reproduced in colour p. 92;
S. Khachatrian, Know and Love Hovhannes Aivazovsky , Yerevan 2012, reproduced in colour p. 150;
G. Caffiero and I. Samarine, Neizvestnyi Aivazovskii: k 200-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya , Moscow 2016, p. 413, no. CS-1885-002, reproduced in colour pp. 272 and 413;
S. Khachatrian, Aivazovsky, Yerevan 2017, reproduced in colour p. 98;
S. Khachatrian, Aivazovsky. 200th Anniversary, Yerevan 2017, reproduced in colour p. 90.
Property from a Private Collection
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
Feodosia 1817-1900
Breaking Wave
signed in Cyrillic and dated lower left: Aivazovskii 1895
oil on canvas
unframed: 61.4 x 99 cm.; 24 x 39 in.
framed: 95 x 132.5 cm.; 37½ x 52 in.
