What kind of work back to the heirs of Malevich?

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Sotheby's experts expect the painting "Suprematist composition" Kazimir Malevich beat the record set by the works of Russian artists, reports Reuters.

Organizers expect the auction, despite the global financial crisis, to get a picture, written in 1916. More than $ 60 million auction Organizers are betting on the Russian oligarchs, in the expectation that they will be able to offer that amount.

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As the representative of Sotheby's, "Supremacist Arrangement, representing the number of rectangles and triangles on a light background, is" one of the greatest works of modern times, ever exhibited for sale.

Earlier, in 2000. for the work of Malevich was paid an amount of 17.1 million dollars, but for the record for the works of Russian artists of the amount of 20.9 million dollars went under the hammer painting "Fugue" Wassily Kandinsky. "Supremacist composition was part of the paintings, which K. Malevich left with architect Hugh Herring in Berlin at the time of his forced return to the Soviet Union. The artist believed that "Supremacist composition" too avant-garde for the USSR.

A few years after the death of the artist G. Hering has sold paintings to City Museum in Amsterdam. The litigation between the heirs of Malevich and Amsterdam stretched about 17 years. As a result of an agreement reached between the parties, the heirs received 5 pictures painted by the artist, including "Supremacist компазицию.

New York auction scheduled for 3 November 2008. "Supremacist track" will show at the pre-auction exhibitions at museums in London and New York.

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