Exhibitions Christie `s return to Moscow

[SergeiSK]

Auction house Christie `s pre-auction resumes practice shows in Moscow, interrupted by the crisis. April 2-3, in the Small Gnezdnikovsky Lane, in the house Spiridonov, Moscow collectors will present lots of trades Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art, which will be held in May in New York.
Their first pre-auction exhibition of Christie `s held in Moscow in 1997 - it was a display of works of the Impressionists in the Kremlin. In 2007 was probably the most sumptuous of all the exhibitions of the top lots - in a restored Pashkov House, they estimate the total reached $ 300 million Christie `s paintings are also brought to St. Petersburg and the province (Samara and Nizhny Novgorod). The crisis forced the auction house practically roll their projects in Russia in 2009 brought only Russian porcelain from the Paris gallery Popoff, in 2010 - nothing.
However, it was in 2010 was a success - the sum total of all trades Christie `s to $ 5.0 billion, and the auction house again beat his rival, Sotheby` s, which generated $ 4.8 billion commercial success at home, or the exploits of Russian collectors, according to essentially made the cashier last February auction of Impressionist, Modern in London, or endorsed by Forbes ranking of billionaires increased density in Moscow - one of these reasons or all together Christie `s decided to return.
At the exhibition in the mansion Spiridonov come work Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman. Star of the project will be painting by Pablo Picasso's "Children and toys, valued at $ 5,5-7,5 million . This picture was written in 1901 and at the same time participated in the exhibition of works by young artists in Paris, Ambroise Vollard's gallery.
Tatiana Markina
b-Online, 10.03.2011