«Russian painting and graphics XIX - XX centuries». Auction house «Kabinet». Announcement of tenders on 24 May
ARTinvestment.RU   05 мая 2008

May 24, the auction house «Kabinet» will be bidding number 5 (14) «Russian painting and graphics XIX - XX centuries»

May 24, the auction house «Kabinet» will be bidding number 5 (14) «Russian painting and graphics XIX - XX centuries».

The basis of an auction of Russian art works represent the end of XIX - early XX century. Among the works presented at auction - painting classical Russian painting by Ivan Shishkin (etude «Two female figures», folder «60 etchings Ivan Shishkin»), two early watercolors by Alexander Benois, retrospective collection of 15 studies of different academic years, Professor Imperial Academy of Arts Nicholas Dubovskoy and his finished painting «Garden» (1915).

interesting work four miniature 1900-ies, Konstantin Korovin, sketches and miniatures Basil Polenov, Sergei Vinogradov, and others.

It is necessary to identify three of the court painter FI Baikova with genre scenes from the life of Caucasian mid-XIX century. The artist enjoyed the fame and the favors of the imperial family, but his work is extremely rare even in museum collections (for example, in the Russian Museum, only three of his paintings).

One of the top auction lots can be rightly regarded as a small picture of P. O. Kovalevsky «Cossacks at bivuake» ( «A letter from home»), which exhibited at the Imperial Academy of Arts and was published in the catalog in 1890.

interesting and ceremonial cloth hand full artist admiralty LD Blinova. With documentary accuracy, he showed the official reception ceremony at a European port in 1890, the Russian squadron led by the cruiser «Memory of Azov» with heir Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Nicholas II, on board before departure to the famous circumnavigation.

Art of XX century in the auction works of the masters of Russian realist school (especially Nikolai Sokolov and Arcadia Plastov) and the nonconformists (Vladimir Yakovlev, Anatoly Zverev, Lev Kropiwnicki).

highlighted a series of paintings by Nikolai Kuznetsov, selected works from which were published in the Mail postcards USSR.

Pre-exhibition will be open daily from 20 to 24 May in the office of the auction house «Kabinet» Central House of Artists (CHA) at: ul. Krymsky Val, 10, room A-24, with 11. 00 to 20. 00.

Source : www.kabinet-auktion.com