The Black Sea off Crimea
Russian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1954
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
585 x 1080 mm
Place of origin
Russia
Order this imageCollection
Knightshayes Court, Devon
NT 541126
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Black Sea off Crimea, Russian School, 1954. A stormy coastal scene, with a gunboat flying a Soviet naval flag at sea. The building at left is probably Swallows Nest Castle on Aurora Cliff at Gaspra, a spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Black Sea coast. In 1954, when the picture was painted, the Crimean Oblast (a Russian administrative territorial division) was transferred from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The painting was presented to Sir Derick Heathcoat Amory, 4th Bt (1899 - 1981) by Soviet leaders Marshal Bulganin (Premier of the Soviet Union, 1955-58) and General Secretary Khrushchev (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1953-64) during their visit to Britain in 1956. Kruschev and Bulganin visited Britain on 18-27 April 1956 at the invitation of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden. Sir Derick Heathcoat Amory was at the time of their visit Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Provenance
Presented to Sir Derick Heathcoat Amory, 4th Bt (1899 - 1981), then Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, by the Soviet leaders Marshal Bulganin and General Secretary Khrushchev during their visit to Britain in 1956.
Credit line
Knightshayes Court, The Heathcoat-Amory Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Russian School, artist