ARKHIP IVANOVICH KUINDZHI (1842-1910)

Before the Storm

Details

ARKHIP IVANOVICH KUINDZHI (1842-1910)
Before the Storm
unsigned
oil on canvas
25¼x35 5/8in. (64.2x90.5cm.)

Provenance

Property of the artist until his death in 1910
Kuinji Society
sold by the above to Mr Pavlov, in 1912
sold by the above to Mr Soloviev, in 1927
purchased by the antique shop Mostorg in 1931
purchased by a representaive of the Greek Embassy in Moscow in 1931
and thence by decent

Lot Essay

Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was born in the town of Mariupol on the Azov sea, Kuindzhi studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of the Arts, trained under the patronage of the famous seascape painter Ivan Aivazovskii. He painted essentailly landscapes and seascapes.

Works by Kuindzhi are extremely rare on the market, and a painting by this artist with such a detailed provenance is almost unique.

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