4th October, 2019, at 1 pm READINGS: FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE BALTIC COAST IVAN AIVAZOVSKY'S PAINTINGS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF LATVIAN, ESTONIAN AND UKRAINIAN MUSEUMS PROGRAMME: 12.30–13.00 Registration 13.00–13.15 OPENING SPEECH. BIOGRAPHY OF IVAN AIVAZOVSKY Daiga Upeniece, Head of the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE 13.15–13.45 I. AIVAZOVSKY IN RIGA Ksenija Rudzīte, LNMA / Curator of the Foreign Painting Collection at the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE The topic of the paper focuses on the artist’s connections with the art life in Riga. When and where the first exhibition of Aivazovsky’s paintings was organized in Riga? What did the local press write about it? How did the collection of Aivazovsky’s works at the Latvian National Museum of Fine Arts form? 13.45–14.15 THE COLLECTION OF I. AIVAZOVSKY IN ESTONIA Aleksandra Murre, Director of the Kadriorg Art Museum and Mikkeli Museum The topic of the paper focuses on Aivazovsky’s collections of paintings in museums and private collections in Estonia. Not only the discoveries that were made during the production of the exhibition In Pursuit of the Ideal (2018, the Kadriorg Art Museum) will be told, but also the content and history of the painting View of Mount Vesuvius a Day before the Volcanic Eruption, 1885. 14.15–14.45 THE COLLECTION OF I. AIVAZOVSKY’S ARTWORKS AT THE ODESSA FINE ARTS MUSEUM Mariia Kazakova, Leading researcher and curator of exhibition projects of Odessa Fine Arts Museum The paper is dedicated to the Odessa Fine Arts Museum, its history, as well as the history and the content of its collection of I. Aivazovsky artworks. 14.45–15.00 Q&A LANGUAGE: Latvian, Russian VENUE: Art Museum RIGA BOURSE, Doma laukums 6, Riga / Conference Hall (3rd floor) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Booking is not needed. Free entrance P: (+371) 67 226467; E: [email protected] .