Sale of paintings from the Hermitage collection

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Sale of paintings from the Hermitage collection - taken by the government of Soviet Russia act of sale of paintings in the Hermitage collection, which occurred in 1929-1934 gg.

All of the funds and the exposure was chosen 2880 paintings, 350 of which represented the works of great artistic value, and 59 - masterpieces of world importance, a small portion of them, not finding a buyer, still come back, but 48 well-known masterpieces ever left Russia - including work of such masters as Jan van Eyck, Titian, Rembrandt and Raphael. Some of these paintings were in the collection ever since it was founded by Catherine the Great. It was also sold a collection of Netherlandish and Flemish paintings (about 700 paintings), collected and bequeathed to the museum by PP Semenov-Tian-Shansky, as well as some other collections, donated to the Hermitage in the late period (eg, Stroganoff).

In addition, from the Hermitage art sold silver, bronze, numismatic collections, Byzantine enamel.

State Hermitage Museum and Soviet scientists at the time of removal of exhibits from the Hermitage, as well as the general public - after the publication of information on the extent of losses in the 1990's, this sale of national patrimony and cultural heritage is regarded as a "tragedy and catastrophe", "madness", " piecemeal, often awkward, even meaningless, and therefore deplorable in its results of activities.

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1928
Hermitage and Russian Museum are the lists.
Decided to transfer all powers to sell art treasures through the Commissariat of Foreign Trade and personally Mikoyan.
June 4, 1929:
At the Berlin auction Molding exhibited "Portrait of the spouses" Lorenzo Lotto (not sold), "The Entombment" Rubens (not sold). Sold: "The head of an old man" by Rembrandt - 138 thousand marks, "Portrait of an old man" Unocal van Cleve - 100 thousand, "Portrait of Frederick the Wise" Cranach Jr.. and 28, 5 thousand, "St. Jerome" by Titian - 26 thousands, his "Madonna with Child" - over 25 thousand. About the same - from 16 to 25 thousand - was the final price and paintings Moroni, Cantarini, Bordon, Bassano, Robert, Canaletto, Bern.
Summer 1929:
Removed from the Hermitage "Bathers" Lancret and "herd near the stream" Veniksa, "Bravo" Becker "Eve celebration in Rome," Achenbach, "galloping horse" and "Last Supper" by Van Dyck, "The Ascension of Mary" Rubens' Massacre of the Innocents " Giorgione, Portrait of the Doge "Tintoretto," View of the Doge's palace "and" Palazzo Labia "Canaletto work Vigee-Lebrun, Lampi, Bern, Greuze, Panini, van Hovena, Lorrain, and many others.
April 1929:
Gulbenkian acquired "Annunciation" Dirk Boats (54 thousand pounds) - the picture is not from the store, and from the main exhibition, and the only "Boats" Hermitage.
It is the same: two paintings by Hubert Robert, they depict scenes to clean the park of Versailles, affected by Hurricane
24 subject of French silver, performed the largest French masters of XVIII century by the orders of Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II
table-secretary of the era of Louis XVI furniture maker of the famous Parisian Rizenera. All together - 54 150 pounds.
Dirk Boats (niderl. Dirk Bouts; Dirik, Thierry Bauts, about 1415, Haarlem - May 6, 1475, Leuven) - Netherlandish painter.
"Annunciation", XV century.