The book about the famous seascape "Unknown Aivazovsky" by Ivan Samarin was published

The new book by Ivan Samarin and Gianni Kaffero "Aivazovsky Unknown" will be released on 29 August.

A summary of one of the authors, Ivan Samarin:

Russian on his father and Irish mother, was born in Vienna in 1964. He graduated from Eton and Oxford. A descendant of the famous Slavophile Samarin Yury Fedorovich and great-nephew of the same "Girl with Peaches" Valentin Serov - Faith Mammoth. For many years he worked expert on Russian art at auction house Sotheby's, where he had access to the works of Ivan Aivazovsky, having the opportunity to thoroughly examine the masterpieces of the great artist, and at the same time faced with numerous imitations that have flooded the art market. In 1996, together with the founder of the Department of Russian Art Sotheby's Jon Stewart created a consulting company in London Russian Art Consultancy, is engaged in the assessment of products and consulting in the field of Russian art.