Sale of paintings from the Hermitage collection

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Sale of paintings from the Hermitage collection - taken by the government of Soviet Russia act of sale of paintings in the Hermitage collection, which occurred in 1929-1934 gg.

All of the funds and the exposure was chosen 2880 paintings, 350 of which represented the works of great artistic value, and 59 - masterpieces of world importance, a small portion of them, not finding a buyer, still come back, but 48 well-known masterpieces ever left Russia - including work of such masters as Jan van Eyck, Titian, Rembrandt and Raphael. Some of these paintings were in the collection ever since it was founded by Catherine the Great. It was also sold a collection of Netherlandish and Flemish paintings (about 700 paintings), collected and bequeathed to the museum by PP Semenov-Tian-Shansky, as well as some other collections, donated to the Hermitage in the late period (eg, Stroganoff).

In addition, from the Hermitage art sold silver, bronze, numismatic collections, Byzantine enamel.

State Hermitage Museum and Soviet scientists at the time of removal of exhibits from the Hermitage, as well as the general public - after the publication of information on the extent of losses in the 1990's, this sale of national patrimony and cultural heritage is regarded as a "tragedy and catastrophe", "madness", " piecemeal, often awkward, even meaningless, and therefore deplorable in its results of activities.

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1928
Hermitage and Russian Museum are the lists.
Decided to transfer all powers to sell art treasures through the Commissariat of Foreign Trade and personally Mikoyan.
June 4, 1929:
At the Berlin auction Molding exhibited "Portrait of the spouses" Lorenzo Lotto (not sold), "The Entombment" Rubens (not sold). Sold: "The head of an old man" by Rembrandt - 138 thousand marks, "Portrait of an old man" Unocal van Cleve - 100 thousand, "Portrait of Frederick the Wise" Cranach Jr.. and 28, 5 thousand, "St. Jerome" by Titian - 26 thousands, his "Madonna with Child" - over 25 thousand. About the same - from 16 to 25 thousand - was the final price and paintings Moroni, Cantarini, Bordon, Bassano, Robert, Canaletto, Bern.
Summer 1929:
Removed from the Hermitage "Bathers" Lancret and "herd near the stream" Veniksa, "Bravo" Becker "Eve celebration in Rome," Achenbach, "galloping horse" and "Last Supper" by Van Dyck, "The Ascension of Mary" Rubens' Massacre of the Innocents " Giorgione, Portrait of the Doge "Tintoretto," View of the Doge's palace "and" Palazzo Labia "Canaletto work Vigee-Lebrun, Lampi, Bern, Greuze, Panini, van Hovena, Lorrain, and many others.
April 1929:
Gulbenkian acquired "Annunciation" Dirk Boats (54 thousand pounds) - the picture is not from the store, and from the main exhibition, and the only "Boats" Hermitage.
It is the same: two paintings by Hubert Robert, they depict scenes to clean the park of Versailles, affected by Hurricane
24 subject of French silver, performed the largest French masters of XVIII century by the orders of Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II
table-secretary of the era of Louis XVI furniture maker of the famous Parisian Rizenera. All together - 54 150 pounds.
Dirk Boats (niderl. Dirk Bouts; Dirik, Thierry Bauts, about 1415, Haarlem - May 6, 1475, Leuven) - Netherlandish painter.
"Annunciation", XV century.

[vyadem]

Cyril Syzransky, thanks for the info ... did not know about this fact.
Hm ... the power was simply wonderful ... but what surprised after the destruction of churches: (

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January 1930:
Rembrandt, "Portrait of Titus" (bought Gyulbenkyanom)
Watteau. "Lute Player". (Gyulbenkyanom bought, then resold the Metropolitan Museum in 1934)
Van Dyck, "Portrait of Suzanne Fourment daughter" (bought by Mellon)
Van Dyck, "Portrait of Philip, Lord Wharton" (similar), 250 thousand pounds
   

May 1930:
Nicolas Lancret, "Bathers" (Gyulbenkyanom bought, then resold to George Vildensteinu. Now in private collection)
"Pallas" Rembrandt
"Music Lesson" Gerard Terborch - 120 thousand for all the pictures (including "Lute-Player" Watteau)
statue of "Diana" Houdon (same) - 20 thousand pounds
Rubens, "Portrait of Helena Fourman - 55 thousand pounds
15 silverware - 100 thousand pounds (all purchased Gyulbenkyanom)
Sold masterpieces of the 1 st series of Master Quantity
Botticelli 1
Boats 1
Van Dyke 7
Van Eyk 3
Velazquez 1
Veronese 1
Perugino 1
Poussin 1
Rembrandt (and school) 10
Rubens 4
Titian 1
Tiepolo 1
  

June-July 1930: Jan Van Eyck, "The Annunciation", (sold to Mellon for 502 899 $)
Van Dyck, "Portrait of Isabella Brandt (sold to Mellon for $ 223 000)
  

October-November 1930 Rembrandt, "Portrait of an old man", (sold Gyulbenkyanu, 30 000 pounds) - his last purchase
Adriaen Hanneman, «Portrait of Henry, Duke of Gloucester" (bought by Mellon)
Veronese, "Finding of Moses" (bought by Mellon)
   

Also, the doublet of the numismatic department of the Hermitage Fund allocated 347 gold and 17 platinum coins, provided for the export of cuirass and helmet, a full set of knights' armor of German gunsmiths of XVI century and a half, hundreds of prints and large quantity of no value to the Museum of Porcelain (gala dinner sets "Paris" "Orel", "Maltykovsky"), paintings Y. Robert, A. Watteau. JB Greuze, L. Lagrenee, F. Lemoine, Lorrain, J., F. Wang Mirisa, G. Berkheyde, A. Van Ostade, G. Van Hohnhorst, M. Van Heemskerk, as well as other well-known and lesser-known painters of the XVII -XVIII centuries.

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January 1931 Rembrandt, "Joseph, Potiphar's wife accused" (bought by Mellon, today attributed as the work of the workshop)
 

February 1931
Hals, "Portrait of a young man."
Rembrandt, "Girl with a whisk. (now attributed as the work of the workshop)
Rembrandt, "Portrait of a Polish nobleman.
Raphael, "Saint George and the Dragon".
Velázquez. "Portrait of Pope Innocent X» (Etude, the New York version)
Sandro Botticheli, "The Adoration of the Magi" - 838 thousand dollars
Hals, "Portrait of the Counselor" (officer).
Rebrandt, "Woman with a carnation" (attributed as the work of the workshop)
Chardin. "House of Cards", (all purchased Meloni)
    
    

April 1931:
Rembrant, "Turk" (now attributed as the work of the workshop)
Van Dyck, "Portrait of the Flemish ladies.
Perugino, Crucifixion with Mary, John, Jerome and Mary Magdalene "
Raphael, Alba Madonna ". (1 166 400 $)
Titian, Venus with a mirror. (all purchased Meloni)
    
 

May 1931:
last auction modeling, Berlin, has failed. "Adam and Eve" by Lucas Cranach, The Holy Family by Andrea del Sarto, Portrait of Trieste, "Anthony Van Dyck," Portrait Vorontsova daughter of George Romney, "Allegory of Eternity," Rubens - sold only 613 326 dollars returned to the Hermitage " Portrait of Nicolas Rokoksa "and" Portrait of Baltazariny Van Linnik "brush Van Dyck, Rembrandt, 'Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well", canvases by Poussin, Boucher, Lorena, Vigee-Lebrun, Bern, Robbery, Greuze, Bellini.
 

After the ruling Politburo:
Tiepolo, "The Banquet of Cleopatra" (Bartered and Knoedler Gallery Colaghni, now in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia)
"Triumph of Amphitrite" Poussin - Art Museum of Philadelphia (USA)
Paired portraits of "Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham's" and "Portrait of Anne Fearnley, wife of Sir Thomas Gresham's" work of Antonio Moro (same)
Van Eyck's diptych of the Crucifixion and the Last Judgment - the New York Metropolitan Museum. More "Van Eykov" in the Hermitage is left.
"Peter's Denial" by Rembrandt - Municipal Museum of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
National Museum in Nuremberg has acquired canvas Platzer "Concert"
Cologne "Wallraff-Rihards Museum" - "Portrait of Hans Shelenberga" brush Burgmeier.
  
Other sale items in the 30-ies:
Faberge Egg
Codex Sinaiticus
Night Cafe (painting van Gogh)

[uriart]

This scum Mikoyan in selling more and saying:
"Buy, buy! Anyway communism will win in the world and all that again will be ours!"

[Wladzislaw]

Сообщение от uriart

This bastard Mikoyan in selling more and saying:
"Buy, buy! Anyway communism will win in the world and all that again will be ours!"

These thousands of pounds - in fact, a lot of money. All the museums of the world, except the government, bought and sold pattern.

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Сообщение от Wladzislaw

All the museums of the world except the Soviet, buy and sell paintings.

That's right, sell to buy something else in the museum.

[Бирюза]

Guys, read the topic and soul hurts. How is it, what we stand for the people such that we choose a leadership that does not work for the benefit, but harm the country and its people. How could sell these paintings?! For centuries, gathered at you.
  What we do not store, having lost weeping.
Cyril Syzransky, thanks for the theme.

[SAH]

Сообщение от Turquoise

Guys, read the topic and soul hurts. How is it, what we stand for the people such that we choose a leadership that does not work for the benefit, but harm the country and its people. How could sell these paintings?! For centuries, gathered at you.
What we do not store, having lost weeping.
Cyril Syzransky, thanks for the theme.

So in fact more and invent an excuse, or rather believe those who invented it, they say tractors, tanks, and generally is an urgent need.

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Сообщение от SAH

mol tractors, tanks, and generally is an urgent need.

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