The 200th anniversary of marine artist Ivan Aivazovsky was marked in Nikolayev town of Ukraine with the opening of an exhibition of the works of the artist and his pupils,   Analitikaua reports. 

The opening ceremony of the exhibition “200 years of triumph,” organized by Nikolayev Art Museum after V. Vereshagina and Union of Armenians of Ukraine (UAU) in Nikolayev oblats (region) was attended by Consul General of Armenia to Odessa Hayk Gulyan,  head of Culture, Nationalities and Relogions Department Mikhayil Dimitrov, Head of Historical Cultural Committee of UAU, Davit Davtyan, etc.

Highlighting the exhibition was the painting “Pushkin farewell to the sea,” which Aivazovsky painted and presented at his personal exhibition at the Imperial Academy of Arts. The canvas was handed to the gallery in 1914, the year when the Nikolayev Museum after V. Vereshagina opened.

Head of the Committee on Historical and Cultural Heritage of the UAU, Davit Davtyan, informed that 17 works of which 9 were the canvases of Aivazovsky, were demonstrated at the exhibition. The authors of the rest of the paintings were artists, which were his apprentices and contemporaries.  Among the displayed works are those of Alexey Bogolyubov, Alexey Ganzen, Constantin Kryschitskij, Nikolay Dubovskoy, Vasily Polenov and Rufin Sudkovsky.