In London the Ukrainians bought at auction as a gift for the boss now 865 t.u.e.

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In London the Ukrainians bought at auction a gift to his boss, now in the style of "nu" for 865,000 dollars

In London, the anonymous women customers from Ukraine to buy a Christie's auction with a picture of a nude model for 865,000 dollars. The painting was intended to present a high-ranking official.

The picture on the phone has become a kind of women customers from Kiev. According to the Ukrainian magazine, called the woman "from the upper echelons, looking for a gift for the" main ".

Neither the name of women customers, no who the "master", not reported. We only know that the canvas was sold for 865,200 dollars.

Recall that in 2006 at Christie's auction picture Serebriakova "Sleeping Nude" was sold for 1 million 416 thousand dollars. It became an absolute record for the works Serebryakova auctions.

Zinaida Serebryakova - Russian painter, one of the first Russian women, who make the history of painting. Her grandfather - the famous painter Nikolai Benoit. Serebryakov widely known as a painter of nudes. Did not get the education given skills in body image, she had a natural "flavor" to the subject. She posed for women and girls from Russian families in Paris. The paper on the topic of "nu" Serebryakov enjoyed pastel and oil. Bed gave fine light-air effects, soft tone, poeticized femininity.

Her most famous paintings - "Bathers," Over the toilet "," Bath "," Harvest "," Whitening canvas "," Nude with a book. "

Work Serebriakova are in many countries, mainly with collectors from among the Russian emigration of the first wave. Her paintings are exhibited at the State Russian Museum, State Literary Museum, the Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum, Novosibirsk Art Gallery, in the Kharkiv Art Museum and others.
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