Paintings by one of Russia's most famous ... A number of highly-valuable works by Ivan Aivazovsky were lost when the General Kotzebue steamship sank off the coast of Crimea in 1895.

An Aivazovsky painting originally estimated at no more than €10,000 came under the hammer at the Stockholms Auktionsverk Auction House for €920,000, Voice of Russia reports. The history of Ivan ...

Of Armenian descent, Aivazovsky (1817-1900) spent most of his life in Feodosia, the Black Sea port in Crimea where he founded a museum to display his art in 1880. He studied and taught in imperial ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - An Ottawa resident is selling an Ivan Aivazovsky painting auction value sails in uncharted waters. According to Ottawa Citizen, the painting - titled "The Sea" - has some ...