American Museum of cowboys selling the biggest picture Feshina

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American Museum of cowboys selling the biggest picture Feshina
 RIA Novosti, Maria Ganiyants. Three paintings of Russian artist of the first half of the 20th century, Nicholas Feshina expose the National Museum of the cowboys in Oklahoma City for sale, "Masterpieces of Russian Art" auction house Sotheby's on November 1 at New York, RIA Novosti reported the press service of the auction.
Top-lot will be the largest painting of the artist, ever put up for public auction, - "Cheremis wedding".
Prices for the artist's works have grown considerably over the last year. Thus, for many experts of the art market was surprising that about a year ago, the picture "The Little Cowboy" who emigrated in 1923 in the United States from Soviet Russia Feshina was sold at the "Russian auction" MacDougall's auction for 6.9 million pounds against the estimate of 500-700 thousand pounds.

Estimate monumental canvas "Cheremis Wedding" - 3-5 million dollars, two other canvases, put up for auction - bust portraits of the "Peasant Girl" and "The Temple Dancer" - estimated at 200-300 thousand dollars each.

"Cheremis Wedding" came to the museum from the collection of President of Krebs Pigment and Chemical Sonena August, which bought it from collector George Arnold Hearn, who, in turn, spotted a painting on display in Feshina Carnegie Institution in Pittsburgh in 1911.

Founded in 1955, the National Museum houses a collection of cowboys art and artifacts of the American West. Proceeds from the sale of three paintings will go to further the completion of the museum's collection, the subject matter which is directly connected with the history of the American West.

Also at New York auction will be exhibited works by Konstantin Korovin "An Evening in Marseille" (400-600 thousand dollars), the canvas Boris Kustodiev "Fireworks. The Bronze Horseman" (3.4 million), "And we continue to catch" by Nicholas Roerich (1-1.5 million), "Face Time" Aristarchus Lentulov (1.8-2.2 million), "Sandy Beach" by Ivan Shishkin (1.2-1.8 million), "Moscow Street" Natalia Goncharova (1-1.5 million), and others.

[олег назаров]

Yeah, the money raised from the sale Feshina can buy a lot of cowboy stuff >

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Сообщение от Oleg Nazarov

cowboy stuff

Oleg Nazarov, Oleg Nazarov, "Artifact" ...
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Сообщение от Oleg Nazarov , 1796793

Yeah, the money raised from the sale you can buy a lot of Feshina cowboy stuff >

But you must admit , for the museum's picture with the wedding of some distant Mari is also quite some really exotic. >
In Feshina many things American period and the Indians, by the way , and this same thing in 1911

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzran

the wedding of some distant Mari

You'll laugh, but I first thought was "cowboys Towns" in America ....

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About the way, very good thing for Feshina perhaps the best in him.