Artist of the week: Alexander Kharitonov
Years of life: 1931-1993
Period: and
Directions: a painting, drawing
Life and work
One of the most peculiar representatives of unofficial art 1960-80-х, Alexander Kharitonov was born on 10 may 1931 in Moscow on Plyushchikha. Professional education he received was in art school, but was forced to quit her: I had to make a living. As a teenager, he worked as a house painter, and even a Stoker in the zoo.
the First performance of the fine arts, the future artist got within the walls of the Novodevichy convent, where he drove grandma. Impressions of numerous frescoes, religious themes and highlighted by decorative, flatness of the composition remained in his work throughout his life.
my teachers have already established the artist Alexander Kharitonov called Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Alexei Savrasov, father Pavel Florensky and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
This unexpected "set" of teachers, consisting of thinkers, writers, composers and religious leaders, accurately describes the artist's work: its very atmospheric, bright, difficult and designed landscapes are perceived as Baroque music and almost always have a philosophical religious overtones, forcing you to transfer thoughts from perceived aesthetics to a kind of ethical maximum.
According to the artist himself, his painting is both technical and philosophical points of view based on three pillars: the Byzantine and ancient Russian icon painting, as well as at the old Russian Church embroidery of precious stones, pearls, beads. Precisely inlaid embroidery, and not to the French modernist technique of pointillism send us finely made, filigree work of the artist, affecting the abundance of detail and a mastery of touch in his graphic works and numerous local dot brush strokes and layers of paint in the picturesque compositions.
depending on the subject, the artist's work can be divided into two periods. Early — since the late 1950-х and before the end of 1960-х when attention Kharitonov has focused on creating a fantastic, almost grotesque, stories with philosophical overtones, inspired by Orthodox history and culture of ancient Russia, and Mature — 1970-е and until 1986, when the artist from fantasy songs went on to create landscapes, and genre of their art is completely gone in the Orthodox paintings and drawings, began writing romantic-сказочные, Dating back to the Christian iconography of the paintings with miniature temples. In addition to these two periods in the artist's work, you can allocate a number of student works that were created before the end of 1960-х years, characterized close to a realistic manner the technique, and the compositions made after 1986-года:this year, the artist suffered a stroke, after which he was partially paralyzed and he could only work with his left hand, creating a small-sized compositions in which developing themes and motifs of previous years, and from time to time turned to abstraction.
In 1958 he entered his first exhibition of nonconformists at Moscow state University and since 1975 has become a regular Exhibitor in group exhibitions of the "other art".
a kind of Otherness and — the artist's work was quite popular during his lifetime, and today, after a quarter of a century after his death in 1993, it retains its huge appeal to connoisseurs and art lovers of all ages.
During the life of Alexander Kharitonov had solo exhibitions at important venues in the country. First appearance in a leading domestic Museum space took place during the group exhibition "Other art" at the Tretyakov gallery in 1990/1991. At the same time, since the 1970-х years, his work has been included in the exhibition in more than 20 exhibitions of unofficial art abroad: in France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Italy, UK, Japan and the United States. The artist has participated in at least three biennales: Venice (1977), Turin (1978) and the Biennale in Bellinzona (Switzerland, 1978).
the artist's Works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov gallery (Moscow), Moscow Museum of modern art, the Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany), Art Museum of Tampere (Finland), Zimmerly Museum of Rutgers University (new-Брансуик, USA), etc. Geography major private collections, as a Russian artist of his period, is traditionally wide: Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, USA.
Financial performance
the Identity of the artist is reflected in the perception of his works of art-рынком: for collectors Kharitonov rather important plot-making, awareness, individuality of the author, and not the year of writing. The three most expensive of his works includes paintings, written in different periods of his work: the song "Ladies in pink and white", created in 1976 and sold in 2007 for £105 thousand, the late work, "Peace, or Big angel over the world" (1986-1988), the price of which amounted to £120 million in 2014, and finally "Faith" from the series "the Magician" (1965), sold for $145 thousand in 2008.
According to the database ARTinvestment.RU by the time of publication, the artist has 109 auction sales. The average cost of sold work — $35.2 thousand, the Total capitalization on the public market — $2.53 million Has a positive balance of sold and unsold works: 72 37 (66 % of all trading completed sales).
table 1. Sales by period of holding of the auction
|
the Period sales, years. |
Total sales, units |
Successful units. |
Failed units. |
Sharesuccessful % |
|
2005-2009 |
33 |
23 |
10 |
70 |
|
2010-2014 |
43 |
28 |
15 |
65 |
|
2015-2019 |
33 |
21 |
12 |
64 |
table 2. Sales by country the auction
|
Country of sale |
Total sales, units |
Successful units. |
Failed units. |
the success rate, % |
|
United Kingdom |
65 |
45 |
20 |
69 |
|
Russia |
31 |
16 |
15 |
52 |
|
the U.S. |
10 |
9 |
1 |
90 |
|
France |
3 |
2 |
1 |
67 |
the Auction history of Alexander Kharitonov to date, had repeated sales, therefore we can use the counting another indicator — exceeded the estimate in the successful sales (remember, their share is 66 % of the total number of auction precedents). The average estimate of all sold works was exceeded by 162 % — in other words, the sellers received an average amount of 1.6 times more than the initial estimation of the auction house. At the same time exceeding the average estimate recorded at 63 % of sales (40 of 72), the upper limit of assessment of the auction house was held, with 48 % of sales (30 works from 72). This is a fairly high figure for an international artist, but for the Russian author with a positive balance of sold and unsold works just high.
Starting in 2015, a shift in the sales of an artist from Britain to Russia in light of changes in the activity of collectors of Russian art of XX century and focus on the domestic auction market. Given the wide geographical presence of the works of Alexander Kharitonov outside the country and serious international portfolio, the organizers of major retrospective exhibitions have a set of collectors and institutions that can provide their work, as well as the material for the directory of authorship of foreign experts.
On the current 322-м AI Auction Alexander Kharitonov "Silence" (1979).
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