"Unknown masterpieces" from private collections will be shown at the Cultural Forum in the Arena
ARTinvestment.RU   21 марта 2017

Moscow cultural forum will take place in the Central Arena from March 24 to 26. The public can visit it for free. The business program will be accompanied by performances of famous people, and at least one interesting exhibition

in particular, In the framework of the exhibition "Unknown masterpieces", the public will show not previously exhibited the works of Ivan Aivazovsky, Mikhail Nesterov, Alexey Bogolyubov from private collections. Some-какие details leads TASS citing the words of the head of the Moscow Department of culture Alexander Kibovsky: "For me was the discovery that there is a second version of the painting "Vision of young Bartholomew" by Mikhail Nesterov. There is a textbook version, and it turned out that there are also superbly made, but with a different composition".

Add that to the story of the meeting of the future of St. Sergius of Radonezh with the Angel in the image of the monk painter Mikhail Nesterov addressed several times. At least two complete version of this composition sold at Sotheby's. I suppose that the option, which will show in the Arena, — is the painting "Vision of young Bartholomew", bought in London in may 2003. Meter-long canvas was then purchased for $834 000. And after 4 years at Sotheby's in new-Йорке sold another version of "Vision." Then it was bought for $4 296 000 and set a still unbeaten the auction record for the artist.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: tass.ru, kultura.mos.ru, artinvestment.ru