At Volkhonka opens a new antiques center

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At Volkhonka opens a new antiques center, promising a revolution in Russia antiques market. Place - vaults under Volkhonka related to a complex of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the concept - access to European buyers of Russian antiques, swing - 2 thousand square meters. m and 500 works of art: everything here is unusual and great.

It is hard to believe that in the center of Moscow, near the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin and close to the temple of Christ the Savior, may open new space area of 2 thousand square meters. m. Volkhonka Fine Arts Centre - a huge hall, which served as the technical facilities pool "Moscow", and the restoration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior came into the complex. Director of the Center on Volkhonka Alex Volobaev even says that once there was a station of Stalin's secret metro.

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The organizers of the new antique center rent the premises, proximity to the temple inevitably imposes on what will be represented in it, some frames. But the director general Volkhonka Fine Arts Centre Alexis Volobaeva, part-founder of Moscow's architectural office, Il Centro Nuovo, is not worried - the center of Volkhonka and so was going to deal exclusively with the old classical and academic art.

It will be submitted to antique gallery in France and Italy - the same price, for what it is sold in Europe. В списке сотрудничающих с центром на Волхонке галеристов более десятка уважаемых названий, таких как парижская Michel-Guy Chadelaud и римская Cesare Lampronti. Here you can see and buy paintings - still lifes by Dutch and Italian landscapes, works of decorative art - a sculpture made of bronze and marble clock and candelabra, as well as ancient interior items until the Renaissance, fireplaces and columns. Among the potential clients center on Volkhonka - domestic collectors interested in an old art, but are not regulars Sotheby `s and Christie` s. And - know-how to Russia - decorator. They are in the world among the most active buyers of antique furniture and interior painting, which then filled with apartments and villas to their customers.

To start in Volkhonka Fine Arts Centre will bring a large collection of paintings by old masters - a hundred works of masters of the Venetian, Flemish, Neapolitan school XVII-XVIII centuries. In Moscow, these paintings will be shown in the format of the exhibition, but after the painting will return to the border, they will buy and bring back.

In these collections - paintings of various formats, subjects, schools and authors of varying degrees of fame. For example, a rather large historical canvas of the famous Venetian Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's "Caesar examines the head of Pompey." Or Veduta Venetian Francesco Guardi, depicting, however, is not a front corner of the city. Among the landscapes - gloomy canvas of Genoa romance Alessandro Magnasco and charming pair type XVIII century Neapolitan Carlo Bonavia, depicting fishermen at sea in the morning and evening light.

Paired Baroque still life (just on the walls of the grand dining room or living room) with flowers and fruit were written by Abraham Brueghel, the great grandson of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A few still-life paintings to be painted though not the most famous, but most of these "small Dutch", such as Willem von Aelst, portraying the traditional lemon, a glass of wine and a dish of oysters.

No less attention in the exposition Volkhonka Fine Arts Centre will be devoted to the decorative arts. Here you can see and buy cabinets in the style of Louis XV and Louis XVI, and finished with brass flourishes and marquetry of precious wood mantel clock with binding allegorical figures in bronze, gilded chandeliers and desk sculpture. Required for the rich interiors of the things that are created for export to China and Japan, the XIX century, will also be. For example, the paired figures of dogs, protect the welfare of the house, or lacquered Chinese screen.

Results in the near future at the center on Volkhonka promise to deliver about 500 antiques. Even more of them can be found at the center, and then from Europe to bring to order.
On May 19, ul Volkhonka, 15. Days of work for the public: Tuesday and Thursday from 12.00 to 20.00, Saturday from 11.00 to 20.00

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