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The painting "Still Life with Fruit" painted by Russian artist Ilya Mashkov sold at auction at Christie's for U.S. $ 7,253,000 was thus set a record for the cost of the artist at auction. This is stated in the message auction house.
In the fight for the lot, which lasted five minutes, was attended by customers over the phone to one of them and got a masterpiece. Name of the new owner of the painting is not called.
"Still Life with Fruit," written in 1910., Was one of 20 works I.Mashkov included in the first exhibition of "Jack of Diamonds", which was held in December 1910. and January 1911. The list of exhibits, an initiative of Natalia Goncharova, Petr Konchalovsky, Mikhail Larionov and Aristarchus Lentulova, along with the works of Russian artists also included paintings by French Fauves, representatives of German expressionism and Cezannism.
The painting "Still Life with Fruit" participated in the spring exhibition at Christie's in Moscow in April of this year, before this masterpiece is not exposed to the public 100 years. The last picture show in the exhibition, organized by the Society of Contemporary Art in the City Museum of Amsterdam, in 1913. together with the works of Derain, Mondrian and Konchalovsky.
By around 1920. "Still Life with Fruit" was in the collection of William Beffi, which, according to some sources, purchased it in 1913. at the insistence of one of two people: Le Fauconnier, who himself was a member of "The Jack of Diamonds" 1910., or Conrad Kikerta - Dutch painter and art critic, worked as a secretary and treasurer of the Society of Contemporary Art.
Add that another still life I.Mashkov "Flowers" was previously sold at Sotheby's for $ 3.5 million
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