Moscow Auction House Sells a $1 Million Painting Reportedly Stolen from a Ukrainian Museum
In a controversial sale, a painting titled 'Moonlit Night' by Ivan Aivazovsky sold at Moscow Auction House for about $1 million.
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In a controversial sale, a painting titled 'Moonlit Night' by Ivan Aivazovsky sold at Moscow Auction House for about $1 million.
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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.
A painting that was transferred to the Simferopol Art Museum following Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 has appeared on the list of a Moscow auction house, Ukrainian law expert and former Crimean Prosecutor Gyunduz Mamedov reported on X on Feb. 13.
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