Benoit de Stetto in Kolomna
 

Collection of works by Alexander Benois de Stetto acquired from the heirs of the deceased Petrograd antiquarian Eugene Malyshev, the first year goes to Russia, from the Russian Museum to Tyumen. Just traveling exhibition 80 works - portraits, landscapes, still lifes - was held in Kolomna, in the House Ozerov.
The memoirs of Alexander Benois and correspondence Zinaida Serebryakova word there of her nephew, Alexander Benois de Stetto, "Swiss Benoit" - which is not surprising, in the famous clan of artisans 50 people drew, sculpted and built. Dee Stetto - Benoit on his mother, an assistant architect in Leontius had worked by his father, Siegfried shveytsarskopoddanny Levy. Schur Benoit walked in the footsteps of the ancestors, he graduated from architectural courses, learned painting from Roerich (felt in the mountain scenery) and Rylova (by which was cool animalist), and the love of ancestors to the architecture depicted in stunning watercolors that mastered in the late 20's. During the revolution, became interested futurism, and even began to build their own original house on a rotating base. The 23-year moved back home father in the Swiss village of Stettin, and from there, via Bern and Paris - to Berlin, where he settled the set designer for Max Reinhardt in the theater Habima. For the avant-garde solution of Mozart's opera "The Abduction from the Seraglio" won the Grand Prix of Berlin. Back in the 29-m in Geneva with a Danish wife, engaged in design, automotive as well. The most famous product of his era art deco - poster ski resort of Grindelwald, still sells at auction for big money. Benoit de Stetto fine was given to any genre and any technique (better than many of their relatives) are absolutely perfect, the level Shuhaeva and Yakovlev, his sanguine - portraits of animals and neighbors. In the 50's he began experimenting with volume and architectural form, and began to write lyrical, abstract "structure", shown at the World Exhibition in Brussels.
May 26 Benoit de Stetto exhibition opens in Vyatka, in an art museum.

More:
Alexander Tikhonov http://www.russiskusstvo.ru/authors/139/a718/
Victoria Khan-Magomedov http://art.1september.ru/article.php?ID=200800102
Yuri Mudrov
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structure 1970

Benoit de stetto

structure in 1970

What great structure.
It turns out he made them when he was firmly behind 70.
The artist, incidentally, has recently been very inexpensive.
Now noticeably added to the price, but its current auction record for 5000 euros.

Not exactly - at St.Pete auction winter still life sold for

$ 20 is http://auction-house.ru/auction/1303?page=1

Yes, interesting.
The process has started?
The new auction house, together with Sberbank.
Will soon hold the second auction.
On the landing of the Russian Museum, incidentally.
We have an interview scheduled with them.

Yes, the new bid Benoit also presented - probably the second part of the collection sell out))