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Art News

16.08.2018 Could the music teacher and speech therapist to steal the painting De Kooning for $160 million? Judging by the mug shots of robbers suspiciously similar to a photo of Jerry and Rita Alter, — painting of Willem de Kooning's "Woman — Ochre" in 1985 could easily steal they
09.08.2018 Portrait of an unknown Briullov was a portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna The discovery was made by employees of the State Russian Museum
08.08.2018 Died Andrew Krisanov, member of St. Petersburg's "New artists" Krysanov died in the night of 7 August 2018, 53-м year of life after serious illness
07.08.2018 "Leonardo" with "Avito" was exposed four years ago About the painting "Girl in furs," exposed a week ago on "Avito" with a price tag of 5 282 000 000 rubles, in 2014 voted one of the world's leading experts on Leonardo
02.08.2018 From the Swedish Cathedral in broad daylight stole two gold Royal crown and Orb The kidnappers of the Royal regalia of the seventeenth century fled on a motor boat

Auctions

13.08.2018 Open 241-е the Auction Traditional twenty lots — is eleven paintings, four sheets of original and three — prints and two sculptures
07.08.2018 Open 240-е the Auction Traditional twenty lots — is seven paintings, five original leaves and one — printed graphics, one work in mixed media and one set porcelain
01.08.2018 "Pushkin — is our everything": rare books and autographs at auction "Russian enamel" on August 16 On 16 August, "the Russian enamel" held an auction of rare books, manuscripts, photographs and historical documents, which will be presented over 400 lots
01.08.2018 Painting, graphics, DPI "Russian enamel" on August 8, The catalog consists of 172 lots, from engravings of the middle of XVIII century to the works of our famous contemporaries
30.07.2018 Opened 239-е the Auction Traditional twenty lots — is eleven paintings, nine of the original sheets and one — prints and two works made in mixed media

Articles

03.08.2018 Auction "Antiquarium" on July 28. A brief summary Sold 3.6 million — 131 % of estimate. One of the top-лотов was the work of Vladimir Nemukhin, sold for 240 thousand
25.07.2018 Auction #separably in the "Cabinet" brought almost 4.5 million. Top-лотом became the icon of "our lady of Vladimir" — 600 thousand.
24.07.2018 "Russian Enamel" solemnly closes the season goes on vacation At the final auction July 14 "Russian enamel" has pleased participants of Kandinsky, a collection of netsuke and works of a Friend
18.07.2018 Neural networks are "trained" to recognize fake paintings It is an old dream of scientists and neo-алхимиков: just push the button — art-анализатор blinked the lights and drew the conclusion: "fake" or "original". Progress is being made, but the critics on-прежнему laugh at the "robot-экспертом"
17.07.2018 Top-10 Russian paintings at international auctions of the first half of 2018 AI publishes the rating of auction results for artists orbit Russian art in the first half of the year. The principle of formation of the list — is our usual "one the artist — one painting"

Exhibitions

14.08.2018 "Bathing of a red horse" Petrov-Водкина brought to Ekaterinburg This and more than 70 works, including works by N. Roerich, B. Kustodiev, A. Benois, M. Vrubel, show at the Ekaterinburg Museum of fine arts the exhibition "the owner of the "red horse". Gift Kazimiera, Bacevich museums in Russia"
14.08.2018 Arkhip Kuindzhi in Moscow The exhibition of the famous Russian artist opened on 4 October 2018 at the Tretyakov gallery in Lavrushinsky lane
25.07.2018 In the Pushkin exhibition "From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi" Works from the City Museum of Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza, from the collection of "Intesa Sanpaolo" — Gallery Italy, Palazzo Leoni Montanari in Vicenza and the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin in Moscow
18.07.2018 In the Tretyakov gallery is preparing a major retrospective of Mikhail Larionov The exhibition will show about 500 exhibits of Russian and foreign museums and private collections. Opening September 19
09.07.2018 Nikita Medvedev: VITA BREVIS, ARS LONGA The exhibition, which will be held from 18 to 28 July in the halls of the Moscow Union of Artists on Kuznetsky most, will present more than 100 works of Nikita Vsevolodovich Medvedev (1950-2018)