Show all images on one page	#005205 Title: Storm at the Island of Valaam Artist: Buzovkin Iliya Size: 12.5x9.5x2.5 Size (inches): 5x3.75x1 Price : $495 SOLD!

This beautiful marine scene has been painted by Iliya Buzovkin. It is an interpretation of the canvas-on-oil painting by Alexander Vasilievich Gine (1830-1880). It shows a couple of fishermen fixing some food on the shore of a small bay of island of Valaam , located on the lake of Ladoga. The fishermen started the fire and making fish soup...
Artist Alexander Gine was studied in St.Peterburg's Art Academy for a long time-it was a come and go process. But he was very talented and studying under the guidence of Vorobiov S.M., he was awarded with small and big Silver medals(1857), (1858),(1859) and a small Gold Medal (1860).In 1865 he has complete the studying at the Academy with a degree of the highest level artist and in the end of his life he became an Academician of Art(1878). Montains ,Rocks and water were his popular subjects.That is why the artist spent time in the Crimea, Vallam and suburbs of St.Petersburg.
Alexander Gine has spent two seasons of 1858 and 1859 on Valaam Island with Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich(1832-1898) and some other students of Art Academy. During that time this masterpiece was painted.
Valaam, also known historically by the Finnish name Valamo, is an archipelago in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga, lying within the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. The total area of its more than 50 islands is 36 square km. The largest island is also called Valaam. It is best known as the site of the 14th century Valaam Monastery and for its natural beauty. In the 12th century, the islands were a part of the Novgorod Republic. In the 17th century, they were captured by Sweden during the Time of Troubles, but Russia reconquered them less than a century later. When the Grand Duchy of Finland was set up in the early 19th century as an autonomous part of the Russian Empire, Alexander I of Russia made Valaam a part of Finland. In 1917, Valaam became a part of newly independent Finland but was acquired by the USSR after the Winter War and Continuation War.
The name of the island is from the Finno-Ugric word valamo, which means the high, mountain, ground.
The scene is framed with a gold line; the box's sides are decorated with two parallel gold lines.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. A hinge is fastened to the top of the scene, and the box rests flat. The work is signed with the artist's name and the year of 2009.