Auction "Russian Classic XX Century" Leonid Shishkin Gallery

[SergeiSK]

On Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 15-00, Leonid Shishkin Gallery will auction "Russian Classics. XX Century". Here's the announcement of the auction:
"The first auction of the current season in the Gallery Shishkina will please collectors and fans of diverse and high-quality art collection.
Among the top lots admirers of Soviet classics available on the market two rare works by Dmitry Nalbandian - "Blooming Garden" in 1932, estimated at 1 200 000 - 1 500 000 rubles and Lake on the way to Abramtsevo "in 1962 with the estimate: 900 000 - 1 200 000. The price for this level things are quite consistent with the period of crisis that we are now experiencing.
Large Sterling prepared for collectors of paintings 1920s-30s. One of the top lots - the landscape "At sunset" Trofimova, written in the 1920's clearly influenced by creativity Aristarchus Lentulov, estimated 900 000 - 1 200 000 rubles. And a whole placer beautiful things and quality: Central Asian "Old Castle" Seraphim Ryanginoy 1928, "Naked" Victor Perelman 1910s, the time of his studies at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, valued respectively - 300 - 400 000 and 300 - 350 000 rubles. Dated 1920m a year, but not signed "Still Life" (with skull), someone from the students VKhUTEMAS (200 - 250 000 rubles). And on paper - watercolor painting M. Khrapkovsky of the first issue of the magazine "Krokodil" 1936 "Obstacles to the lyric" when there will be electric streets of Moscow was an obstacle to retire a couple of squares (score - 200 - 250 000 rubles). Watercolors 1930s on a production theme Leningrad artists PP Grigoryants (50 - 60 000 rubles). And much more.
In addition to Nalbandian in the section of the Soviet classics can be found academicians from Kukryniksy Porfiry Krylov (180-220 000 rubles) and Yuri Podlaskie from Leningrad (three of his landscapes are estimated from 50 to 100 000 rubles). Please note that Lot 86 mistakenly attributed only to the Russian text, Alexander Podlaski, the son of an academician.
Pay attention to the work of Leningrad artists David Borowski and Yefim Rubin. "Lives" of the Soviet leaders and the iconography of them created by filmmakers and artists. A great number of reproductions of bad reps and create the illusion of abundance variations of this material, but, in reality, accurate, skillfully composed and qualitative iconography is extremely rare in the market, and in our auction this - genre scenes with Lenin Borowski and Rubin. We estimated they were inexpensive - from 30 to 50 000 rubles. Collectible same value them - are much higher.
For fans of the earlier painting - in the top lots - "Winter Landscape" Guzhavina (500 - 600 000 rubles), a follower II Shishkina with excellent etude "Forest" (300 - 350 000 rubles). We are confident that someday someone will prove that this sketch was painted by the great artist himself, is so brilliantly its quality. "