Sotheby's will bring to Moscow Goyyu, Degas, Munch, Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Koons, Lichtenstein, Prince ...
ARTinvestment.RU   13 октября 2008

From 16 to 19 October, Sotheby's will hold in Moscow, the pre-show of top lots upcoming fall auctions Impressionist, Modern and contemporary works of art in New York

From 16 to 19 October, 2008 auction house Sotheby's will present one of the largest and most significant exhibition ever organized by auction house in Moscow. The exhibition will feature the top lots of the upcoming autumn auctions Sotheby's in New York - a unique work of Impressionist, Modern and contemporary works of art. The exposition will include works by Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Prince and other artists.


evening auction of Impressionist and Modern - November 3, 2008 in New York

At the pre-show in Moscow will be a unique pastel by Edgar Degas «Resting Dancer» . The works of this level is rarely exhibited in the auction. In this exquisite painting, executed in 1879, portrayed a secret world zakulisya brilliant ballets Palais Garnier. Living artists backstage Degas attracted more than glitter and glow of the stage RAMP. In the works of the late 1870's and 1880's artists, he writes in everyday situations: to warm up, before the holiday sessions, or, as here, relaxing after heavy exercise. This product bought in 1885, other artists, in whose family it had been stored for more than 100 years before his first appearance at auction Sotheby's in London in 1999, when it lasted for a record sum for the works of Degas. Estimeyt picture is more than 40 million dollars.

The exhibition will be presented exclusively rare piece Edvard Munch - «Vampire» in 1894. «Vampire» is considered one of the landmark works in the history of art. First appeared in public, the picture became a sensation, and it remains to this day. In «Vampire» Munch turned to the theme of love and death; frank eroticism picture brings association with the provocative works of Goya, Francis Bacon and Demiena Hirst. The painting was included in the pictorial cycle «Friz life», which the artist worked in 1890-ies. In this series also includes the famous «Creek» and «Madonna». «Vampire» exhibited for the first time after the sensational auction at Sotheby's last year, when the product Munch «Girls on the Bridge» in 1902 was sold for 30 841 000 dollars. This unique work is widely exhibited in the world and more than 10 years were in agreement with the owners of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Estimated estimeyt «Vampire» will be more than 35 million dollars.

Another unique exhibit will be one of the most significant works by Picasso , appearing at auction in recent years. Painting «Harlequin» (bust) in 1909 was written at a turning point in the history of modern art, just two years after its writing, Picasso completed his breakthrough work - «Girls of Avignon». In this portrait depicts Harlequin, one of Picasso's most beloved characters. Over the past 60 years, this masterpiece kubisticheskogo period, Picasso was in the property-surrealist painter Enrico Donati, who died earlier this year at the age of 99 years. Donati, an Italian by birth, part of the circle of prominent European artists, and just as many of them - Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Arshil Slides , Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico and others - he went to New York at the beginning of the Second World War. Picasso himself was linked with Dyushanom friendly relations, as well as the long creative collaboration. Estimeyt picture will be more than 30 million dollars.

This picture «Portrait of a seated person» Amedeo Modigliani's showed an unknown gentleman. The work was written at the end of World War I, when the artist lived in Nice (estimeyt 18-25 million dollars). Judging from the character's attire, Modigliani painted Representative «white-collar».

Scenic Series with views of Rouen Cathedral by Claude Monet painted is regarded as one of the most important in his work and in the beautiful heritage of Impressionism in general. Often-repeated motif of Rouen Cathedral, recorded at different times of day and year, was the determinant in shaping the aesthetic concepts of Impressionism. «Cathedral in the fog» , representing the Gothic facade of the building, covered dense gray-blue haze - one of the most expressive images of the entire series (16-22 million dollars). Monet chose this picture of the twenty species of Rouen Cathedral for display in the gallery Durand-Ruel in 1895.

At the pre-exhibition of Sotheby's will also be presented to other classic works of Impressionism - the work of Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne and Alfred Sisleya.

The exhibition will feature two works by Henri Matisse , made in the early 1930's. At that time, the artist rarely turned to easel painting, working primarily on the creation of the fresco «dance», which was made by the employer, Dr. Albert C. Barnes. Both scenes are presented landmark for creativity Matisse stories. Exquisite elegant portrait of a young woman - «Portrait Titina Trovato in a dress and hat» (12-18 million dollars), was one of the first portraits, written by Matisse, after several years of work on «dance». Though a painter and feared that his paintings will be weaker after a long break, this portrait shows the opposite. The palette of the painting, composed of bold shades of green, contrasting with the pale yellow and bright red color shows the talent of Matisse. The composition of the painting reflects the thinking of Matisse sculpture that is true for other of his works in 1930-ies. The artist has their model against a background of pale lilac lattice, as if emphasizing the architectural proportions of her body. In the center of his attention is rounded shoulder line model underlined kroem dress and boa, and the soft contours of the face and neck is made distinct, sharp strokes.

«Still life with three vases» - gorgeous picture Henri Matisse 1933 (8-12 million dollars). Like his contemporary of Pablo Picasso, Matisse experimented with perspective, striving to achieve visual drama. In this picture he расставил three vases at the table, as if bent forward. The Red Book, as shown in the lower left corner of the painting, visually reinforces the sense of a rough surface. «Still life with three vases» remained in his personal collection of Matisse before his death in 1954. The daughter of artist Marguerite inherited cloth and in 1966 sold his gallery Nedler in New York. In the same year acquired the picture Evelyn Sharp, a collector from New York. She collected the art of the twentieth century, and «Still life with three vases» became one of the jewels of its collections.


evening auction of Contemporary Art - 11 November 2008 in New York

At the pre-exhibition of Sotheby's in Moscow will be represented by several top-November auction of lots of modern art in New York, including Jeff Koons sculpture «The Bear and the police» 1988 ( wood, painting, estimeyt 8-12 million dollars). This sculpture is in his famous series of sculptures «triteness» the end of 1980 - one of the most consistent of the artist. In the series «triteness» Koons investigates the role played by advertising and popular images in contemporary culture. Like the other sculptures in this series, «The Bear and the police» inspired by the images of the park's sculptures of painted wood and porcelain trinket from the souvenir shops, which are often found in the homes of the middle class. Here Koons investigates the mechanisms of attribution way, turning to everyday subjects.

The exhibition will be presented to another product Jeff Koons - picture «Defiant» 2000 (4-6 million), part of a series «Light ephemeral fun ». The work consists of colorful characters, food, bikini and beach, superimposed on each other in several layers. Images «daring» a metaphor for contemporary human impacts of various stimuli. Koons uses everyday objects in the scale of advertising posters, fragmentiruya them, shifting the scale, opposing each other.

Richard Prince presented at an exhibition of paintings «Nurse of Evergleyda» 2003 (4-6 million). The source of inspiration for the Prince, as in the case of this picture, often used the cover of dime novels of 1960. The image of nurses has been borrowed by an artist from one of them. The painting is executed in a complex technology. Initially applied to the canvas the image of nurses using inkjet printing. Prince then applied to homogeneous surface print, acrylic paint, layer by layer to create an unusual artistic effect, underlining the depth of the spatial composition. Through the translucent layers of paint appears ghostly image of nurses.

«Still Life number 58» Tom Vesselmanna (3,5-4,5 million dollars) - a collage, collected from different subjects, such as roses and cigarettes. In the early 1960's Vesselman began work on a series of still-life, based on the images of pop culture and advertising of consumer products. At the same time, he developed a series of «The Great American nude». Over time, the two series are closely intertwined with one another, and gradually declined to the artist of the introduction of human figures in the composition of their paintings, you replace it with fragments of the body such as legs, lips or hands. In later works, including «Still Life № 58», created in 1969-1972 years, and people are missing. But some details of the picture, in particular lit cigarette resting on an ashtray, clearly point to a covert presence.

Roy Lichtenstein painting «City and environs. State of New York. Sketch Murals » 1968 (4-6 million U.S. dollars) offered for bids from the behalf of Judith Riklis. In 1967, Roy Lichtenstein began a series of paintings «Modern Painting», which includes this work. The works of the series is largely inspired style «Al Deco», especially his findings in the field of ornament and design. Geometric ornament - circles, triangles, stripes and rectangles around objects - forms a picture of the space that consists of many layers and levels. In this work, showed the characteristic graphic style of the artist, he had honed in the series of paintings of comic-start 1960. Using almost exclusively primary colors - red, yellow, blue - as much as possible closer to the sense of the painting, texture and color range of commercial advertising. Similar works by the artist are at the intersection of pop culture and high art.


paintings by old masters - 29-30 January 2009, New York

The exhibition will be presented «Portrait of Prince Aloys Venelya background Kaunits-Ritberga» Francisco de Goya. This will be the top lot in January auction of paintings by old masters 2009 year in New York. The picture painted in the years 1815-1817, when the French army was expelled from Spain, and Goya became court painter again. Job creation is typical for late Goya. Prince Kaunits-Ritberg, having inherited a rich collection of his family, was considered a connoisseur of the arts and commissioned Goye, the most famous painter in Madrid, write your own portrait. The portrait was executed in virtuoso technique. Apparently, immediately after the end of it was removed from Spain in Vienna. The work became known to the public in 1989, when it was offered at auction in Switzerland from the Yurga Shtukera from Bern.

Pre-exhibition of Sotheby's will be held at the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Russian Academy of Arts (Gogolevskiy r, 10, p. 1).

Source: press release Sotheby's



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