Alexander Ivanov

The Appearance of Christ Before the People

US$ 711.00

John the Baptist stands among a crowd at the Jordan and gestures toward a distant figure walking down from the hills. Ivanov gives the crowd every possible reaction — belief, indifference, fear, calculation — and keeps Christ small and far off. Over five by seven metres in the original, built entirely around a moment of anticipation rather than an event.

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Alexander Ivanov (1806-1858) spent twenty years in Rome working on a single painting, supported by a modest stipend and increasing doubt, producing hundreds of studies and abandoning almost everything else. He returned to Russia with the finished canvas in 1858 and died of cholera six weeks later, aged fifty-two. It is the most famous unfinished-feeling masterwork in Russian art.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 38 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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