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At Monday, 12 October 2009, at Christie's held two sessions on the sale of the XVIII century porcelain from the collection of the Parisian gallery "Popoff" with the outcome of 3.8 million pounds (auction held in London), RIA Novosti reported. Collectors were invited about 300 lots, among which the most expensive were the imperial presentation sets the value of which exceeded 150 thousand pounds per set.
The second day of trading on Tuesday, October 13. It will be sold watercolor work of Alexander and Charles Bryullov, Petra Sokolova, Orestes Kiprensky, Alexei Venetsianov, Vladimir Hau and other artists, as well as objects of decorative art from the collection "Popoff".
The entire catalog of the gallery "Popoff", which created the assembly in the first half of XX century Russian emigre Alexander Popov, consists of 500 lots.
The head of Christie's Russian department Alexey Tiesenhausen characterized the directory "Popoff": "This is perhaps the only private collection of objects of Russian art abroad, which was exhibited on the auctions for the last ten years" (quote from Openspace.ru).
(Lenta.ru)