The collection of Russian avant-garde Nina Suetina entered the Russian Museum
Nina Suetina — the daughter of a colleague of Malevich, the artist Nikolai Suetin, and stepdaughter of his second wife, Anna Leporsky, — died in 2016. She was one of the main carriers of knowledge about the Russian avant-garde, whose opinion is valued by experienced collectors
Became known that the Russian Museum has received a gift a large collection of graphics of the Russian avant-garde artists Nina Suetina. It included works of Nikolai Suetin, Anna Leporsky, Lev Yudin, Vasily Rozhdestvensky, Ilya Chashnik and 160 of the drawings by Kazimir Malevich. Graphics Malevich timing plans to show the exhibition, which is scheduled for late 2018.
In an interesting interview "Artguide", recorded in early 2016, the architect of Nina Suetina said that after his father's death his collection of the Leningrad workshop got them with her stepmother already in fairly looted "dad had another woman he lived there. When he died, she called her friends and they took almost all of the major work. We just have sketches, graphics (they didn't understand that it's valuable) and one big, last father's work, portrait of a woman".
SUETIN, Nikolai Mikhailovich. Suprematist forms, sketch for fabric. 1921
Paper and ink. 23,5 x 32,5
Sothebys. 29.11.2016
sale Price: $62 455
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the CHASHNIK Ilya Grigoryevich. Seventh dimension. Suprematist relief. Beginning 1920-х
Wood, paper, cardboard, glass, red and black ink. 26 × 22,5
Sothebys. 29.11.2016
sale Price: $3 008 770
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Indeed, even today, what is left, is worth a fortune. At foreign auctions small pencil drawings and "sketches" of Malevich is able to cost around $50 000. And the prices are more finished and large pictures of Nikolai Suetin already passing into the region of $65 000-70 000. Pencil drawings were particularly vulnerable to modelscom: graphite does not allow to determine the period of development with technological expertise. And there is just a unique knowledge nasmotrennost and courage Nina Nikolaevna was priceless. She has performed many times, essence, the arbitrator, in conflict situations, including litigation according to the drawings of Malevich from the collection Nusberga. Even experienced collectors of Russian avant-garde tried to consult with her about the authenticity of potential purchases.
note that the drawings, which illustrates this news, — is not a specific thing from the collection of Nina Suetina, but simply examples of auction sales graphics artists-супрематистов, I worked with and was friends with her father.
Sources: artguide.com, tass.ru, artguide.com, rapsinews.ru
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