Auction January-February 2010

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

Yes, Zolotinskaya Spanish theme leitmotif runs through all her work, even say that throughout the entire creative way.
I, frankly, have not tested it for years.

And were there any cases where based on theatrical sketch is then created paintings? The reverse sequence seems quite unlikely.

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Сообщение от fross

And were there any cases where based on theatrical sketch is then created paintings?

But this is just such a case.
Performance has not been implemented and these preparatory works for him formed the basis for other works.
No really?

[fross]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

And this is just such a case.
Performance has not been implemented and these preparatory works for him formed the basis for other works.
No really?

Perhaps, then, should look similar examples. Might have something to show?

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Sketch of the poster L'amour sorcier go?
Hammer price EUR 12,000
EUR 12,000 - USD 18,556 - GBP 9,500
Estimate EUR 10,000
Medium Watercolour, indian ink /paper
Sales date 13 Jun 2008
Location Hamburg (DE)
Size 33x29.8 cm - (13x11 3 /4 in)

[fross]

Looking for a pair of chart-with the dating of the paintings and other work.

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That Spanish woman from the State Tretyakov Gallery.

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Сообщение от fross

The reverse sequence seems quite unlikely.

And here we can recall tetraptih 1911-year "Evangilisty" (now in the SRM) and costumes for unrealized ballet-mystery on the life of Christ "Liturgy" 1915-1916.

[uriart]

I have a job Goncharova - a ticket to the ball, lithography author.
How then, on occasion, bought in Germany in the store at the Englishman.
Very interesting man was. Wrote the book on the history of golf.

[Тютчев]

Self beaten Lucian Freud sold at auction

Unknown self-portrait by Lucian Freud, which he is depicted with a black eye, February 10 will be put up for auction Sotheby's. Lot estimated at 3-4 million British pounds.
The portrait was painted around 1978, since then he has never participated in exhibitions. The name of the current owner of the picture is not called; The Independent wrote only that the man himself has often posed for Freud in the 1970's. One sitter came to the artist and found that in a rage: it turns out, only that during the skirmish, he struck the London taxi driver. An anonymous seller said that the date give Freud failed. The session was canceled because the artist has decided to immediately sit down at the self-portrait.

The head of the European branch of Sotheby's contemporary art Cheyenne Westphal (Cheyenne Westphal) stated that 87-year-old artist recently looked to them to look at his newly found work, reported Bloomberg. According to her, like Freud self-portrait, but he said he did not remember on what occasion started a quarrel. According to critics, the picture of Freud built on a par with "Self-portrait with bandaged ear," Vincent van Gogh "Self-portrait with a damaged eye," Francis Bacon.

In 2008, Freud's painting "The Sleeping sotsrabotnitsa" was sold for 33,6 million dollars, after which he became the most expensive living artists. Buyer's portrait was named Russia's businessman Roman Abramovich.

It is expected that the Sotheby's auction on Feb. 10 will bring 63.6 million pounds (104 million dollars), 68 percent more than similar auctions in the past year. Among the other top lots - works by Peter Doig (estimate 2-3 million pounds) and Yves Klein (2,8 - 3,5 million).

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/01/20/freud/


LOT 67

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
 - LUCIAN FREUD
B.1922
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH A BLACK EYE

3,000,000-4,000,000 GBP

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Edgar Degas is a registered copyist of the Louvre and created more than 700 copies of the works of the Italian Renaissance and the classicism of French, some of whom survived. At Christie Impressionists daily copy of the portrait of Anna of Cleves by Hans Holbein the Younger, the bride of Henry VIII in the portrait of long-distance dating. Holbein tried to fame and her fiance has approved, but at the first meeting said "this Flemish mare ".
Grade 80 120tysyach.