STOLEN ART. Episode 3.THE HUNT FOR AIVAZOVSKY

In early February 2014 in Kuindzhi Mariupol Art Museum, an exhibition opened under the title “Russian and Ukrainian art of late 19th to early 20th centuries”. It was to last until May. But one week before the annexation of the Crimea Russian special services took out all paintings to Simferopol. Among them, there was “Napoli Bay on a Moonlit Night” by Ivan Aivazovsky .

After two years the painting reached Prymorska art gallery in Vladivostok. It boasted “Napoli Boy” as its own property.
In July of the same year, 38 of the artist’s paintings were taken to the thug country. Needless to say, their fate is presently unknown а.

Another unknown is the location of Aivazovsky’s painting “By Caucasian Shores”. This artwork, together with six other masterpieces, was taken in 2022 by Russian invaders from local lore museum in the occupied Mariupol.

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