Show all images on one page	#005202 Title: Ai-Petri Mountain (in southern Crimea) 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). The original oil-on-canvas is kept at the Irkutsk Region Art Museum after V.P.Sukacheova (Russia). Gine's works are also kept in State Tretiakov Gallery(Moscow) and in Russian State Museum (St.Petersburg).
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 to paint.That is why the artist spent time in the Crimea, Vallam and suburbs of St.Petersburg.During one of his trips to Crimea this masterpiece was painted.
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 (Gine, Ai Petri) and with Buzovkin's name and 2009 as well.