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The biggest auction houses still
bring to Moscow to the top lots of future auctions.
Following Christie's exhibition of masterpieces of Russian
art that will be offered at auction in
London, UK, presented in Moscow
auction house MacDougall's. Just two days - 25 and
April 26 - at the Center for Fine Arts at the
Volkhonka exhibited 22 paintings created by the best domestic
artists.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a romantic evening "View
Venice. San Giorgio Maggiore ", written by Ivan Aivazovsky in
In 1851. The landscape in shades of pink sunset belongs to the most
significant period of the artist's work. Cloth, created more than 160
years ago, it is not affected by time: no cracelures,
and the colors are kept pristine purity.
Alexei von Jawlensky Cloth "Still Life with an icon and the flower pot"
presented at the exhibition, refers to the Munich period
recognized as the best in his work. At this time, Jawlensky
appears in the epicenter of European artistic life: in 1909
together with Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter, he organizes
"The new association of artists in Munich," and only two years later
goes to Paris, where he meets Henri Matisse and meets
Kees van Dongenom. In his memoirs, recalled Jawlensky 1910
years as a big breakthrough, "I then wrote his best landscapes, and
Also krupnofigurnye composition in bright, glowing colors, which, when
This does not have any naturalistic or substantive. " Among the
These paintings, of course, owned and exhibited still life.
Beside him in the exhibition presents a rare painting companion
Artist Marianne Verevkina "Night Fishing in Ascona."
«Pax Cultura» Nicholas Roerich is rather historical interest -
looks a little graphic work is not impressed. On
According to a senior specialist of Russian art auction house
Irina Minervino, this picture is the first version of the logo of the Covenant
Roerich, signed in 1934. Roerich Pact is the first
international treaty on the protection of cultural heritage and the
ensuring the protection of cultural property in time of international
conflicts. Proposed in this picture symbol - three red circle
enclosed in a large circle - represents the unity of art, science and
religion, or the past, present and future in terms of eternity.
Among the other works in the exhibition - Cubist
Landscape of Faith Rokhlina "Tiflis" rarity painting of Isaac Levitan
"Illumination of the Moscow Kremlin," kind of a little French
town, "Argento" Basil Shuhaeva 1929 and built in the years
emigration in Riga fabric Sergei Vinogradov, "In the forest for mushrooms," as well as
works of masters such as Konstantin Korovin, Zinaida
Serebryakov, Konstantin Gorbatov, Alexander Deineka, Boris Grigoriev,
Maria Vasilyeva and Kustodiev.

Armen Apresyan
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