Review 2025

18 19 TH CENTURY PAINTINGS Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky ranks among the most important Russian painters of the 19 th century. Already during his lifetime, he sold his works to the Tsar’s court and to aristocratic col- lectors throughout Europe. Few of his contemporaries were able to capture water, sky and light on canvas with the same intensity and technical mastery as the artist from the port city of Sevas- topol. ‘Aivazovsky’s works are riding a newwave of success.’