Ships at Dusk
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
96 x 146 cm - 37 3/4 x 57 1/2 in.
PROVENANCE Private collection, France
BIBLIOGRAPHY Saint-Luc, "Croquis d'Artistes...
Alexis de Hanzen, painter", in Comoedia, June 10, 1909, p. 2 (reproduced in black and white)
"Very personal in his vision as an artist, Alexis de Hanzen, for several years, has devoted himself passionately to the study of the sea, to the multiple manifestations of its eternal beauty. Mr. de Hanzen has a broad and powerful technique, and no one knows better than him how to translate the marvelous majesty of the wave, its caprices in strange volutes, enveloped in radiant light, his brush knows how to render, like a caress, the calm flow or the howling wave, seeking its prey of death. Alexis de Hanzen won a big success at the last
International Exhibition of watercolorists at
Georges Petit, his watercolors have the same qualities as his paintings, a great mastery in the execution: the artist is here doubled by a talented engraver, and his burin follows the whims and fantasies of the painter. Alexis de Hanzen was born in Odessa, grandson of the famous Russian marine painter Aiwazowsky [Aïvazovsky], he remained faithful to the instincts of his race, to his national character. In 1904, in Berlin, he exhibited a Ship Carrying Dispatches on the High Seas, then in St. Petersburg at the Imperial Exhibition of Fine Arts
, Hanover in 1906:
The Thaw at Colditz (Saxony) and A Canal in Venice.
Mr. Hanzen made an exhibition in St. Petersburg of a series of paintings, watercolors, drawings, executed in Venice and Florence, where the conscientious, original talent of the artist was appreciated by his mastery and the great sincerity of his impressions. Rewarded at the Salon des Artistes Français for the whole of his works where he successively exposed: Before the storm, the Black Sea, Mill at sunset
Sun, Winter Morning, Ship of War, etc.
This year he appears at the show with two paintings, one: Before the storm, is marked by a great character of sadness; two watercolors worth by the brilliant side of the execution. I do not want to omit the numerous illustrations made by the painter: Voyage to the Crimea at Mount Athos and Macedonia (1 vol. 1906), which the Novoie
Vremia published in St. Petersburg, M. de Hanzen is a knight of St. Stanislaus."
Saint-Luc, "Sketches of Artists... Alexis de Hanzen, painter", in Comoedia, 10 June 1909, p. 2
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