The June auction Leonid Shishkin Gallery

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June 24, 2010 Leonid Shishkin Gallery will hold the first auction of Russian art in the premises of the Hotel Radisson Royal ("Ukraine").
91st in a row in the history of the auction gallery will be the first in a new place in the new format. The highest level of auctioned works impeccable reputation galleries, as well as the prestige of the new platform and other technical equipment - all these factors make the auction on June 24 an important event for the Russian art market.
Russian painting of the XIX century brought a picture of Nikolai Makovsky "Street in Cairo" in 1884 (estimate 6-8 million rubles). She was inspired by the joint Travel brothers Constantine and Nicholas Makovsky in Egypt. The charm of the East was so great that both the artist for several years continued to paint landscapes and genre scenes, the action that unfolds on the streets of Cairo. In a brilliant, brilliant work of art Nikolai Makovsky perfectly transferred to local flavor, the atmosphere of the bustling eastern city of a thousand-year history.
A masterpiece of the upcoming auction - painting a bright landscape, Russian follower of Cezanne, Nicholas Krymov. His work in 1926 the Lake "(estimate 7-9 million rubles) is a copy by painting" Bathers "(1920) from the collection of Novokuznetsk Museum of Art. This story appeared in the artist in the early 1910's, in their compositions with bather Krymov serves as an excellent stylist and improviser. Absolute randomness compositional landscape resembles the modern viewer a cinematic or photographic image, and the softness of color solutions brings to mind quickly shifting images of sleep.
Another top lot at auction - a small sketch brush Konstantin Somov, a rare early work of his "summer in the country, made in 1897, during the same period, when he wrote his famous painting" Twilight in the old park "and" Bathers ". Apparently, the study was established in the preparatory work on the canvas "confidentiality" of the same in 1897 from the Tretyakov Gallery. In both papers can be traced to specific features Luba: an unusual angle (the characters are shown with a bird's-eye view), female figures in the foreground and stretching landscape. Melancholic mood to study "the summer in the country is estimated at 2,8-3,2 million rubles.
No less interesting and early graphic thing Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (estimate 1,5-1,8 million rubles), made in the early 1900's, influenced by symbolism and Russian Modernism. Watercolor "Birds Fly" refers to a series of sketches that the artist was doing during the work on his unpublished literary works, but it is not an image, and the image arising in the mind of the author in a literary plot.
The most monumental work of Sterling Soviet painting - painting "The opening of the Volga-Don canal" (estimate 7-9 million rubles), written by the famous Infantrymen Peter Krivonogova, one of the major artists' studios M. Grekov.
Another "software" product, not only for socialist-realist paintings, but also to Soviet history - Lenin on the balcony Mossoveta brush Dmitry Nalbandian, apparently, is one of the original versions of the famous 1962 "Lenin's speech from the balcony Moscow City Council building in 1919. Six-meter painting for many years graced the walls of the building of the Moscow City Council, now the Moscow City Hall on Tverskaya street, but in the early 1990's it was taken down and roll it into a roll. Auctioned sketch (estimate 3-3,5 million rubles) was signed by the author in his last years, and possibly the date "1970" presented by the artist on the back of cardboard, is not true. On a picturesque manner and character smears work can be dated late 1950's - early 1960's.
However, most of the Soviet period, which will be presented at the auction, politically engaged, it is expertly made landscapes, lyrical still lifes and accurately noted by scenes from everyday life. There are theatrical works, such as design sketch for La Dame aux Camelias, "made by Yuri Pimenov, author of the cult Soviet film" New Moscow ". Preserved sketch "Ball at the Olympia" (estimate 6-8 million rubles) Pimenov to an unrealized production of "La Dame aux Camelias" in 1946 at the Theatre of the Red Army, gives an idea of making theatrical expressiveness of the artist, his talent set designer. Describing it as a theater artist, actress and director Maria Knebel says: "He worked in theater as a joke. He was accustomed to the laborious efforts easel, it was fun to invent a decorative image of a performance ... Artistic Image Pimenovsky decorations was a synthesis of our joint quest and always enriched the director's design.
The works of outstanding masters of the Soviet period - is also a promising area for investment. Excellent confirmation of the fact - a classic picture of Soviet Yuri Pimenov's "The Rape of Europe", exhibited at the Russian auction Sotheby `s in London (June 2010) with an estimate £ 400-600 thousand. This estimeyt several times the amount for which the product was sold two years ago, Leonid Shishkin Gallery.
(from the site Leonid Shishkin Gallery)
I want to note a good selection of lots. In addition to these artists presented works Lancere, Lentulov, Vyalov, Pozhedaeva, Lansky, Shukhayev, Yakovlev, Juon, Vinogradova, Tourjansky, Della-Vos-Kardovsky, O. Tatevosyan, Zhylinski, Sandyreva, Gedenidze, Andrianov et al
But prices are so little!
P.S. Very well, I bought bigger picture P. Andrianova at a charity auction ArtInvestment!
I wish you success Leonid Shishkin at the new place!

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Yes, the level of auction Oho, frequenters of "Shishkin" Tegin, Bitkin with Polyaskim, and Gedenidze, too, overcame "poor relations".

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On the site it says:

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Сообщение от Mimoprohodil

Sold 0 of 110

Such a Shishkin constantly "Just no concrete results. Postauktsionnye sale and will pass within a few days will be the actual auction results.

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Here are the results appeared:
Sold for a total amount of 41,529,600 rubles ($ 1,340,988)
66 lots of 110 (60%).

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Sold paintings AP Andrianov, all work Pimenov and Vyalov, Lansere, Labas, Lanskoy, bow-legged, Rerberg, DYBOWSKI, both Makovsky, Pozhedaev, AE Yakovlev, Shukhaiev, O. Tatevosyan, Crimea, Petrov-Vodkin, Huon.
Not sold work Konchalovsky, Nalbandian, Somov, Petrovichev, Stozharau Sokolov, Scala, Della-Vos-Kardovsky, Bogaevsky, Tourjansky, Sandyreva, Zhilinskis.
A good result in our time.