British auction house MacDougall's conduct in the capital of Russia exhibition erotic graphics . This was reported in the press release at home. The works, which are brought to Moscow, long considered lost.

The exhibition will be held October 29 at the State Museum of Theater Bakhrushin. It is timed to coincide with the auction of Russian week in London. In doing so, MacDougall's did not introduce a selection of top upcoming auction lots, and the whole monographic collection of works by Konstantin Somov.

The collection includes 122 original copyright Somova sheet with illustrations, created in 1918 for a collection of erotic literature «Book Awnings». These works are considered to be one of the masterpieces of Russian book graphics.

has long been argued that the original drawings for «Books Awnings» lost. Only in 2008 they found among the property of the recently deceased American collector.

Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) - painter and graphic artist, one of the founders of «world of art», after the revolution, emigrated to France. In June 2007 the first picture Somova «Rainbow» set an absolute record for the works of Russian art: at Christie's auction in London, she was sold for 7.37 million dollars.

Source: openspace.ru