1.3 million laid out an unidentified collector for landscape Peredvizhniki Russian Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt «View from the vicinity of Zegvolda» at the Wednesday auction in Dallas

Representatives of the auction house Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, Texas, had hoped that the work of the XIX century Russian landscape painter Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt «View from the vicinity of Zegvolda», written in 1858 in the vicinity of his native city artist, Sigulda in the modern Latvia will be sold for at least a million dollars. Expectations, as seen, true.

high demand of collectors benefited the work of recognized masters of landscape painting Nicholas Timkova. His painting «Rostov winter», written in the years 1970-74 and included in the collection of Kenneth Pushkin, an American businessman and philanthropist, one of the descendants of the great Russian poet, has gone under the hammer for 120 thousand dollars. However, experts texas auction, conducted the auction of Russian art for the first time, it was estimated from 200 to 300 thousand dollars. During the auction was sold to another 6 Timkova landscapes, including «blossoming apple tree», pushed for 86 thousand dollars.

In the course of the auction for 227 thousand dollars on the phone was bought cloth Igor Grabar «Summer Evening» (1923). The same amount of an unidentified collector overlaid and «Autumn view from the balcony» brush Constantine Юона.

Total was carried out 71 lot totaling 2.5 million dollars.

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