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  • Ivan Aivazovsky
    Jul 29, 1817 - May 02, 1900
  • The Bay of Yalta 2 - Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was an Armenian-Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.
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  • This serene view of Yalta and the Ayu Dag beyond is a lovely example of one of Aivazovsky's 'blue pictures' and thought to date from the 1880s. By then in his sixties, this was in many ways a happy period in Aivazovsky's life. Having spent much of the previous decade abroad, he based himself to a much greater degree in Theodosia, where he opened his gallery to the public in the summer of 1880. It was the first private art gallery in provincial Russia and a huge draw for tourists. He re-married in 1882 and was at the height of his fame, showing his work in more than 30 exhibitions over the decade, seven of which were in St Petersburg alone. These included a grand jubilee exhibition in 1887 to celebrate 50 years of his achievements as a painter, at which Grand Duke Vladimir awarded him with the medal of St Vladimir to mark the 'deep gratitude' of the Academy of Arts.

    His ability to revive a view familiar to collectors of his work in part substantiates the jubilee accolades, though the view itself had also developed over the previous fifty years. In his earliest depiction of Yalta in 1838, the town amounts to a few houses below the hilltop church of St John Chrystostom, but it rapidly grew into a popular resort after Alexander II bought the nearby palace at Livadia in 1860. Tranquil seas acted as a perfect means for Aivazovsky to display his mastery of reflected light, which he would usually apply to the surface in quickly drawn lines in thicker paint. The single mountainous cloud which seemingly rises from nowhere above the calm waters is a feature of some of his best mature works, such as Elegant Ladies Fishing at the Water's Edge (1870, Private Collection).

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Other paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky:

The Bay of Yalta
The Bay of Yalta
The Bay of Yalta 1887
The Bay of Yalta 1887
The Birth of Aphrodite
The Birth of Aphrodite
The Black Sea
The Black Sea
Ivan AivazovskyIvan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Hovannes Aivasian) was born on July 29, 1817, in Feodosia, Crimea, Russian Empire, into a poor Armenian family. His father was a modest Armenian trader. His mother was a traditional homemaker. His early talent as an artist earned him a scholarship to study at the Simferopol gymnasium. From 1833-1839 Aivasovsky studied at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where he was a student of professor Mikhail Vorob'ev, and graduated with the Gold Medal.

Aivazovsky was sent to paint in Crimea and in Italy, being sponsored by the Russian Imperial Academy for 6 years from 1838-1844. His numerous paintings of Mediterranean seascapes won him popularity among art collectors, such as the Russian Czars, the Ottoman Sultan, and among the various nobility in many countries. His dramatic depiction of a sea storm with the survivors from a shipwreck, known as 'The Ninth Wave' (1850), made him extremely famous. The original canvas is in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. He also made many variations and repetitions of this particular painting, as well, as of his other popular works.

Aivazovsky produced over six thousand paintings of variable quality over the course of his long life. Most of his works were made on a longstanding commission from the Imperial Russian Navy Headquarters, where he worked for the most of his life, from the 1840s until 1900. He earned a considerable fortune, which he spent for charity, and also used for the foundation of the first School of Arts (in 1865) and the Art Gallery (in 1889) in his home town of Feodosia.

Aivazovsky was a member of Academies of Rome, Florence, Stuttgart and Amsterdam. He died on May 5, 1900, in Feodosia.