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Arkhip Kuinji painted more than five hundred works, mostly small studies and sketches. This particular example was painted on the edge of the Black Sea, near the small town of Kikeneiz on the southern shore of the Crimean peninsula. Kuinji bought a large plot of land there running down to the sea, where he built a house, studio and library for his students. The artist loved working in the Crimea,...
Arkhip Kuinji ’s experiments in painting were an important influence both on his own students and on the general development of Impressionist tendencies in the Russian school of art in the late ninet...
This unfinished canvas was one of the last large compositions created by Arkhip Kuinji. The artist owned several properties at Katsiveli, Alupka and Kikineiz on the southern shore of the Crimea, wher...
Arkhip Kuinji ’s last major painting was an elegiac and contemplative image of nature by night. The decorative tones combine harmoniously with the expressive and rhythmic outlines. A sense of calm an...
Arkhip Kuinji brilliantly conveyed unusual states of nature. In this landscape, enveloped in thick mist, he is drawn to the effect of the illusion of objects dissolving in space. The sky merges with ...