Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé is a Russian artist who was designated as "the magician of light" in America, and whose clients were the family of Carl Fabergé and the Royal family of the Romanovs in the pre-revolutionary Russia. Master of complex light effects, glare and reflections, Choultsé was creating incredible landscapes throughout his life, as if depicting not our real world, but some phantasmagoria. The artist has often portrayed sea views as he was fascinated by the play of sunlight and moonlight on the water. Some critics have argued that none of the other artists can so impressively and vividly display the texture of snow or sunlit forest on the canvas. The artist was a committed realist painter, and even in the heyday of avant-garde t...