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An allegedly stolen painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, dubbed "Moonlit Night," fetched around $1 million in a controversial sale held by the Moscow Auction House in Russia
Ivan Aivazovsky's painting Lunar Night is being auctioned in Russia. At the start of the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, it was illegally transferred to the Simferopol Art Museum alongside over fifty other paintings.