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Like on the eve of the autumn series of traditional Russian art auction in London, the Museum of Faberge in Baden-Baden, added to his collection a unique work of the famous factory of Carl Faberge. The avant-garde work of 1905, a Parisian collector bought for 800 thousand euros, can single-handedly changed our usual idea of Faberge-style works, and perhaps even our understanding of the Russian avant-garde as a whole.

work is a still life with the launch of the newspaper "Vedomosti St. Petersburg gradonachalstva" for October 18, 1905, the signing of the October Manifesto Emperor Nicholas II. This legislation, which is considered the prototype of the first Russian constitution, proclaimed the establishment of a bicameral parliament and guaranteed basic civil rights and liberties.

«This is one of the most interesting works ever executed Faberge factory. Nothing like a Faberge is not found, apparently, and it captured the avant-garde movements and the revolutionary spirit of those years "- believes the Faberge Museum director and one of the leading Russian collector Alexander Ivanov.

Around reproduced on silver paper in 1905 built the avant-garde composition: here you can see half-eaten scrambled eggs, the yolk is carved out of amber, a protein made of enamel, two fish made of silver, and there was only one of the skeleton. Immediately - unfinished glass of vodka ( of rock crystal), and smoked a cigarette (silver, quartz). The picture of the mood hangover supplement flies crawling on scraps of silver.

particularly interested in this still life still, and the date of manufacture. The fact that such direct and full of harsh realism still life compositions are in the usual way for artists Russian avant-garde only a decade later.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

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