Swedish auction lot will be the main work hand Repin

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on the main Swedish auction lot will work hand Repin

 
Auction house "Bukovskis" that in the Swedish capital, is offering paintings by Repin. The starting price "Portrait of Mrs. Beatrice Levy" - about seven million crowns (about one million dollars).

Portrait of the artist commissioned his friend, husband, Levi, Basil, an importer of French and German wines, ITAR-TASS reported.

Swedish experts admire the skill of the Russian painter, but at the same time they see a portrait not only a manifestation of great technology, but also a strong interest of the author. Basis for this given the rumors of which had its place of attachment to the model.

With the couple, Levi Repin met in St. Petersburg, where his wife had moved out of Moscow. Here they met with many artists, and purchased from them a lot of work. In 1918, Levi moved from Petrograd to Karelia. Next were Warsaw, Prague, Paris and, finally, the Swedish Gavle, where the couple settled permanently. Basil Levy died in 1954, Beatrice - in 1980.

Her portrait of Repin wrote in 1918 on neobchnom material - linoleum. "Does it matter on what to write! Anyway, after the second and third letters, even under the first layer of paint on canvas strong disappears and does not play any role. Here I am writing on the linoleum since the war. Wonderful stuff, and durable. Think of the years in the floor is, people walking on it, and he maintains, "- explained the choice of the artist of this material. And according to experts, rich reddish-brown base - the back of the linoleum - was one of the components of imaginative solutions portrait.

"It is a portrait of Repin managed to implement a wide variety of quality of his artistic talent. The genre remained close to him until the last few years of life, and that in the portraits of the late period reflected the contradictions and turmoil period, splitting up into his eyes and his own inner experiences . "Portrait of Beatrice Levy," written in the summer of 1918, is one of those wonderful manifestations of the creative spirit and skill of Ilya Repin, who remained are beyond the age nor the artist nor the tragic changes which he observed in the surrounding reality - the expert notes, "Bukovskis" Russian art Elena Basner. - The artist managed to create a remarkably cheerful, bright image, moreover, can be impressive, if you remember the date of its creation. sounds like a character portrait of the approval of beauty and femininity, triumphant in spite of terrible turmoil of the world, war-torn. "

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