On Wednesday and Thursday in the Guimet show will be pre-auction Sotheby's in New York and London trading. DPI and painting.
PDI-interesting collection of cigarette cases of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna.
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About fifty items for every taste and wallet cigarette cases: from 1 200 GBP to 50 thousand Faberge (Perkhin, Hollming ...), Gubkin, Khlebnikov, Postnikov. With the remnants of tobacco and pillowcases, in which part of the collection was kept in St. Petersburg before sending to the pouch in Sweden. : D They do have an interesting provenance of items, a detective ...
And cufflinks for dress coats and lower-order estimate of 800 to 6 thousand pounds. But Faberge, but the stones, but the master, but the monogram "MP" ...
And interest in painting still lifes from the collection of Goncharova Schreiber ( "Sunflowers," "Flowers and Fish"), "Venice" Exter (already sold on the cristae three years ago, so care-478 pounds) with estimate: 900 thousand, Konchalovsky ( pre-revolutionary Parisian landscape and still life later), Korovin Berlin (something compositionally recalled missing Korovin
Sandro) -600-800 so bucks and, of course, Grandpa Grigoryeva of "Faces of Russia" Est. 400-600 tons dol.
* Vl. Duchess Maria Pavlovna (1854-1920) wife of Vl. Prince Vladimir Alexandrovich (1847-1909), son of Alexander the 2 nd and brother Alexander 3rd. By the way, was the president of IAH.