Exhibition "Seascape" in Sochi

[Tana]

That's strange, I read on the museum site on K. Kostandi:
"One of the earliest time creating landscapes in the exhibition" Classic seascape is a "sea" KK Kostandi (1852 - 1921). He studied at the Art Academy PP Chistyakov, was a member of the Association of Traveling art exhibitions. Since 1885 the artist lived and worked in Odessa (taught drawing and painting at the Odessa Art School, was one of the founders of the City Museum of Art), and, of course, the sea was one of the recurring themes of his work "
http://sochiartmuseum.ru/authors/klassika.php
Particularly surprised by the phrase that "The sea was one of the constant themes of his work", I may have missed something, but it is the only picture with a sea view, which I saw (thanks to SergeiSK).

From the book "Cyriacus Kostandi and artists of the Greeks in Odessa, M.Kostandi," Memoirs of the father ":
"People often ask why his father, living by the sea (can you say, was born at sea), in his work is not portrayed the sea. In the few marine sketches attracted the attention of the artist nestolko sea, many of Odessa's beach, steep cliffs bolshefontanskie, but actually sea inferior role.
Do not whether this is due the fact that the broad expanses of ocean was a stranger to his chamber iskusstvu.No landscape, perhaps there were other reasons, so his father never liked to portray the sea.
I vspomonaetsya that his mother, who knew the family of her future husband, told me that in my childhood, my father survived a serious shock: in the storm, which often plagues autumn in Odessa coast, had not returned from the sea-fishing some fishermen friends of the family ottsa.Mozhet be vocpomonaniya this tragedy half alive the reason that the artist did not like to portray the marine stihiyu.Eto explanation, perhaps significantly, if we remember that his father represented in his art that he loved and that was precious to him. "

SergeiSK'll be very grateful if you can picture cfotografirovat K. Kostandi of your museum and signature
Maybe it Harlampi Kostandi? or all of the same Cyriacus Kostandi, then wonder how the picture got in your museum, just interesting creation date, in fact quite a rare thing!

[SergeiSK]

Himself was interested to learn about something:

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why her father, living near the sea (can you say, was born at sea), in his work is not portrayed the sea.

and why our museum workers wrote. that:

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the sea was one of the constant themes of his work "

At the end of the week will be in the museum and learn everything. Can we in something wrong, we have a small town and cultural life there
A photograph picture of K. Kostandi was inconvenient, because it hung over the entrance. Well, nothing to stand on a stool, but photograph "But the museum label reads" Cyriacus Kostandi, "The Sea" and the signature on the painting K. Kostandi.

[Tana]

[SergeiSK]

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Provenance

He called the museum. They said that the painting K. Kostandi "Sea" was purchased in 1950-ies at a shop № 1 Moscow, as well as other important works of our museum - paintings by Aivazovsky, Bogoliubov Sverchkova, Polenov, Kiseleva, Burlyuk Kryzhitsky and others preserved consignment from the interior shop, which shows all the details. I do not know, show it to me or not, but try.