Ivan Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817 - 1900)

At Auction

Notable Lots

View of Constantinople - Ivan Aivazovsky

Moonlight over the Dnieper - Ivan Aivazovsky

Recent Auction Results

Clouds - Ivan Aivazovsky

By Ivan Aivazovsky
Heavy Seas - Ivan Aivazovsky

By Ivan Aivazovsky

Current Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

Articles

Contemplating Winter in Art: 10 Winter Paintings

Contemplating Winter in Art: 10 Winter Paintings  

Daily Art Magazine 01 Dec, 2025
A rediscovered contemporary of Rembrandt sells for more than 30 times its estimate
Urban Moonlight: A New Genre in 19th Century European Painting

Coverage

..For Aivazovsky, it is the ocean that nourishes all life, but which possesses cataclysmic power...

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Bank Austria Kunstforum

..Aivazovsky dashed light, water and air at a helter-skelter work tempo onto large-format canvases...

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Bank Austria Kunstforum

.. Aivazovsky’s skill to depict such elusive things as water and light shows author’s in-depth interest in the research of natural phenomenon, his remarkable memory and perfected painting technique...

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Art Museum Riga Bourse, LNMA

..Sunrise, sunset, when the sun is at its zenith, diffused light of an afternoon, moonlight – these varied metamorphosis of light fill Aivazovsky’s paintings with particular colouristic refinement and nuances...

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Art Museum Riga Bourse, LNMA

..Aivazovsky was born in the port of Feodosia (today the Ukraine) on the Crimean peninsula...

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Bank Austria Kunstforum

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