"Proserpine" on Sotneby's

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While in the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin is the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition , the auction house Sotneby's to Auction drawing " Proserpine " of the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which is considered a landmark work of this artistic movement . As reported by BBC News, the work done with pastels , will go under the hammer in London in November .
" Proserpina ", created in 1878, is estimated at $ 2.7 million . She put up for sale for the first time in forty years . Last picture was on the market in 1970 : the product has sold the English gallery of Stone Gallery in Newcastle -upon- Tyne . The name of the current owner of the painting is not reported. Figure comes from the collection of William Graham , the patron of Rossetti, a collection which included 35 of his works. There are five versions of the " Proserpine " of Rossetti's three oil-painted , one - watercolor.

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The picture of Dante Gabriel Rossetti «Christmas Carol» (« The Christmas Song ") will be auctioned for the first time in a century , according to The Guardian. Bidding will take place in December 2013 in London at Sotheby's. According to preliminary estimations of experts, the cost of painting can be up to six million pounds (more than $ 9 million ) .

Together with the web Rossetti at the auction will feature two more pictures of his contemporaries : «A Visit to the Yacht» (« A visit to the yacht "), James Tissot and «Tuscan Girl» (« The Tuscan Girl" ) by William Holman Hunt . The total cost of the three paintings to date reaches 14 million pounds.

Rossetti's picture was bought in 1917 by soap magnate William Hesketh Lever, who at that time had already owned several drawings of the artist . Most of the paintings from the rich collection of the English industrialist later included in the collection of the Art Gallery Lady Lever, which he opened to educate its workers. However, the work of the Pre-Raphaelites are privately owned Lever his life.

The model for the painting «Christmas Carol» became a laundress named Ellen Smith, which enjoyed popularity as naturschitsa at the Pre-Raphaelites in the 60- ies of the XIX century. Ellen Smith was the heroine of Rossetti's paintings as " hand washing ", " Penelope ", " Beloved ."

Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the early 1850s became one of the founders of the " Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ," declare the fight against conventions and academicism in poetry and the visual arts . The main theme of creativity English artist was chanting the ideal female image , which for him was embodied in the person of early deceased wife Elizabeth .
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She is a beautiful woman posing for "Ophelia" Millet.

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"Proserpine" on Sotneby's

Sold 3,274,500 GBP

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Another major selling Rossetti at Sotheby's - auction British & Irish Art 10 December sold a watercolor version of the painting "Venus Verticordia/Venus Verticordia ", one of the most recognizable and sensual works of the poet and artist.

The artist posed model Alexa Wilding, which he saw in 1865 in London street and was struck by her beauty. Weeks passed before the girl, who then acting career, agreed to come to the workshop Rossetti (perhaps she was scared of dubious reputation models of the time), but in the end, it was Alex became the beloved artist's model and posed for him before the 1870s though about their relationship, unlike stories, connecting with Rossetti Elizabeth Siddal or Jane Morris, know much less.

Watercolor with challenging the conventions of Victorian image of a naked red-haired girl surrounded by blooming honeysuckle and roses last publicly exhibited in 1886 and spent more than half a century in the collection of the present owner; now she topped the auction with an estimate of £1-1 .5 million and was sold for£2,882,500 ($4,522,931).

Despite the fact that price and not broke the auction record for works by Rossetti, installed in December 2013 ("the Christmas song", £4.5 million), the work, according to representatives of Sotheby's, has found many admirers.