Property from a Private European Collection
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
The Survivors
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Property from a Private European Collection
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
1817 - 1900
The Survivors
signed in Cyrillic Aivazovskii and dated 1878 (lower right); signed in Cyrillic Aivazovsky and dated 1878 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
195 by 266 cm, 76¾ by 104⅝ in.
Framed: 238.5 by 309.5 cm, 94 by 121⅞ in.
Executed in 1878.
The present work is included in the numbered archive of the artist's work compiled by Gianni Caffiero and Ivan Samarine.
Private collection, Greece
Sotheby's New York, Russian Art, 23 April 2004, lot 38
Gianni Caffiero and Ivan Samarine, Light, Water and Sky: The Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, London, 2012, no. CS-1878-011, pp. 188 and 304, illustrated (titled The Lifeboat)
Gianni Caffiero and Ivan Samarine, Neizvestnyi Aivazovskii: k 200-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscowm 2016, no. CS-1878-011, pp. 202 and 378, illustrated (titled Spasatel'naya shlyupka)
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