To study, available in our family portrait of Daniel Hesse work of Yuri Annenkov, prompted us information on the television that the auction "Sotheby's" Annenkov will be on sale picture of "Portrait of Zinovy Grzhebina." As well as information about how the portrait was discovered
http://www.rbcdaily.ru/2010/05/20/lifestyle/479766.
My mother's maiden name - Hesse. My great-grandmother's name was Mina Y. Brozelio-Hesse, she had a sister - Raisa Y. Hesse - the wife of Daniel. Name of Hesse two sisters (both mother's maiden name - Brozelio) because they were married to two brothers - Wladimir Yul'evich (my grandfather)
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and Daniel Yul'evich
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In the 30s, both were arrested and persecuted for the Trotskyist activity.
Daniel was the head of the General Political Department of Water Transport, one of the closest associates of Trotsky. Vladimir survived - the rest of his life in Tomsk, he taught at the university. Daniel was shot.
Our family was quite an interesting archive, which in the camp and letters, photographs, birth birth etc. Also survived Certificate to the birthday of Daniel, made by hand by Sergei Chekhonin (close to the A3 format), with the signatures of the first leaders of the Soviet state, including Leon Trotsky.
In June 2010 we met at the Moscow branch of Sotheby's with Mikhail Kamensky, and left him to analyze the portrait of Daniel Hesse. However, referring to the fact that in 2004 was sold at an auction-like picture
experts, which were accessed by Kamensky, could not make an unambiguous conclusion about the authorship of Annenkov, as well as about whether the work is not of his authorship. Work personally watched Rene Guerra and the portrait did not cause him to doubt the authorship of the exception ... I quote Guerra "was not lazy, carefully studied your material, your signature on your portrait Yu.Annenkova D.Gessena I confuse the letters S, and A ( tendency to irregular) and C. Tested and compared the signatures of dozens of YA the same years, and even the same in 1922, by the way never have Annenkov no figures 2 and 9 with a similar flourish. Moreover, it is a double portrait, which was sold June 21 2004 in London at Bonhams, was from the collection of the late A.Ya.Polonskogo. "
A detailed comparison of the two works shows that the two portraits are made not only on paper, 20's, but have similar structural flaws in the same location, which may indicate their origin from a single stack of sheets for the job.
The overall similarity of the integral of portraits, however, has a number of significant differences in the writing element of the portrait, which makes it very unlikely that the version of writing a copy of the work is not the author. It is also essential that the reverse side contains portraits of different date for the inscriptions, namely, our portrait of the date "29 September 1924 - March 29," and another portrait - "9 October 1924 - March 29." At the same time on the front of portraits of "Annenkov 1922." In our opinion, the date of 1924 country, because it is known that in the summer of 1924 Annenkov went to Italy for the opening of the Soviet pavilion at the International Exhibition in Venice. In Russia, he never returned.
We are confident that our picture can not be forged "by Annenkov," because All the time there was only our family, and hung in a prominent place in the room grandmother Raisa, she treasured them very. The family had enough pictures to honor the memory and make a copy of Annenkov in those years was not logical, and possibly dangerous.