Baryshnikov will sell at auction favorite picture
 

On the " Russian auction "Sotheby's, which will be held April 12 in New York , exhibited painting from the collection of famed dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov , reports ArtDaily. It is a canvas Peter Vereshchagin " View of St. Petersburg . "

Both the Baryshnikov said in a telephone interview with The New York Times, he saw the work Vereshchagin in 1978 in a Finnish gallery and immediately fell in love with her ​​. "In Russia I lived right behind the Hermitage, and the painting was for me as an icon - said the actor . - But now it's time for someone else to recover it . "

Baryshnikov initially gave the picture as a gift to his Center for the Arts , which founded in 2005 ; The Baryshnikov Arts Center and serves formally as a seller of the painting. At Sotheby's work Vereshchagin estimated at 300-500 thousand dollars . The money will fund the work of the art center . "We use the old art to create something new , "- said about this Baryshnikov .

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