On the title page auction catalog - "Lover of beer, Vladimir Makovsky, one of the most successful of its genre and portrait compositions in the antique market in the last decade.
Unconditional discovery - painting a court painter, AP Schwabe from the collection of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder (1831-1891) - "Portrait of a dog."
Particular attention should be given very high quality selection of graphic works. Is to allocate a large series of Nicholas Karazin "Zakaspiyskaya Railway in 1888, several watercolors by Albert Benoit, two" travel "sketches Konstantin Gorbatov from his trip to Jerusalem in 1935, and others. Watercolor of one of the most magical of Moscow artists Ivan Bilibin "Wooden Churches of the Russian North" in 1904 comes from the collection of G. Basmadzhana and was presented at an exhibition of works of art XVI - XX centuries. from his collection, which took place at the Tretyakov Gallery and the Hermitage.
The second half of the twentieth century Russian and Soviet art is represented in the auction catalog the works of a very wide range of artists - from the socialist realists Sergei Gerasimov and George Nyssa to representatives of "parallel" art Alexei Zverev, Mikhail Shemyakin, Vladimir Kazarina.
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