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29.09.2017

View on Revel, reproduction Swiss auction house Koller has removed from auctions View of Reval (1845) by Ivan Aivazovsky, as the artwork hed been stolen, Ria Novosti reports.

“This view of Reval (today known as Talinn, the capital of Estonia) as seen from the sea is an outstanding work by the Russian landscape painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, which has only now come to auction after being conserved for many years in a private collection.” still says the website of the auction house which has appeared to forget to update the webpage. The artwork worth approximately one million dollars was stolen from the Dmitrov Kremlin Museum in 1976.

Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has immediately contacted the auction house managment once they'd found out that the missed painting is there. The masterpiece was immediately taken off from the bidding. Authorized representatives are working on returning the artwork to Russia. It is not known who is the owner of the painting.

It is not the first case when dissapeared from Russia Aivazovsky's paintings suddenly appear on various auctions. For example, two years ago Sotheby's withdrew from auction his oil painting Evening in Cairo.

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