At night the auction will be submitted pictures Gino Severini, Claude Monet and Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti sculpture

June 25, at 7 pm on New Bond Street in London will auction the works of impressionists and modernists. At Sotheby's auction will be represented by 56 paintings, sculptures and graphic works. It was expected that ten of them will bring the amount in excess of two million pounds. «Blockbuster» include paintings of Monet, Picasso, Severini, Miro, de Vlaminka and sculptures of Giacometti.

cover auction catalog adorns «dancer», a masterpiece of futurist Gino Severini. Estimeyt pictures - 7-10 million pounds. This product was displayed with the glitter of all the futuristic paintings: the speed of movement and charm of modern life. The picture displayed on the first futuristic exhibition in Paris in 1916, a year later, the artist sent her to New York for its exhibition in the gallery of Alfred Stieglitz «291». The same, in 1917 bought a picture of a famous New York collector John Quinn. In 1944 it acquired the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the collection of which she was more than forty years. Since 1989, the painting remained in private collections.

In 1906 the artist moved to Paris where he entered the Bohemian community and okunulsya all the charm of a night life. Perhaps the girl depicted in the painting, dancing in a cabaret, where Severini entertainment in the company of their friends. His first «dancing» artist wrote in 1911. The work presented in the auction was founded in the late «futuristic» period Severini, who is considered by many art pinnacle of his creativity. At that time, he wrote not a lot of work, so the picture of this class, as «dancer», very rarely appear at auction: the last time such a beautiful work of Severini could buy as much in 1990.

There has been wide interest in futuristic paintings. The following year, the most mainstream of Italian modernism, turns 100 years: 20 February 1909 in the newspaper Le Figaro published the first manifesto of futurism, the author of which was F. T. Marinetti. In many cities exposition dedicated to the centennial of the movement. June 17 in Moscow, Pushkin Museum opens exhibition «Futurism - Radical Revolution. Italy - Russia ».

Chief «impressionisticheskim» fathomable is called «The Beach in Truville» Claude Monet (estimeyt 7-10 million pounds). This painting - one of the major paintings, written by the master of Impressionism in 1870. She recently exhibited at the exhibition Impressionists by the sea, organized by the London Royal Academy, and adorned the cover of a catalog.

In addition, at an auction several prominent works Alberto Giacometti. Recently, the prices of its products hit record: in May this year the picture «Portrait Carolina» was sold at Sotheby's for 14.6 million dollars. At the June auction will be bought, among other things, a bronze group of «Three-reaching rights» (estimeyt 4-6 million pounds) - branded thin figure. Giacometti called «sculptor-existentialists». It is almost weightless creations symbolize loneliness, alienation and lost modern man. Sculptural group is dated 1948 and the end of the forties is considered the most important period in the works of famous sculptor. At Sotheby's will also see a «naked women IV» 1953 (estimeyt 300 000-400 000 pounds) and «Male bust (Diego)" (700 000-900 000 pounds).

Giacometti belongs saying «between sculpture and painting, there is no difference». At the auction, two paintings «singer existentialism»: «Corner shop with bucket and broom» (estimeyt 650 000-850 000 pounds) and the «black head (Diego)» (3-4 million pounds). The latest work - a portrait of the artist's younger brother. Diego and Alberto Giacometti were very close throughout their lives. The younger of the brothers, an artist and designer, is often inspired to create a variety of senior products.

Top-lot auction is also known as a graphics work great Catalan surrealist Joan Miro «Gourmet evening at the Princess» (estimeyt 3-4 million pounds). Surrealism is very popular at auction: not so long ago manifests Andre Breton were sold in Paris for 3.6 million euro . «Gourmet evening ...», written in 1944, depicts six fantastic characters surrounded «brand» star artist. It uses the Miro painting techniques developed them several years earlier in a famous series «Constellations».

There is also a number of gouaches Belgian Rene Magritte and his famous painting «love prospect», previously estimated by specialists to 1,8-2,5 million pounds.

In addition, to bid the work on display Pablo Picasso and Fernand Leger from the Norwegian collector Haak A. Christensen. All the money that they will bring the owner, will go to the charity organization «Doctors without borders».

Experts point out that in recent auctions have tremendous success of the expressionists and fovistov. According to the director of the upcoming auction of Helena Newman, today buyers works like bright colors and bold shapes. In February 2007, the painting team of Kandinsky «blue rider» Franz Marc «grazing horses III» went for 12.3 million pounds (a record for works by this artist), in May the same year «Jesuits III» Lionel Fayningera were sold for 23, $ 3 million, and in November «Waterfalls» Mark brought 20.2 million dollars. At Sotheby's evening auction in June to appear brighter pieces such as «Pierrot (Self)» Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele (1,8-2,5 million pounds), «Asgardstrand» Precursor expressionism Edvard Munch (2-3 million pounds) as well as paintings by the French fovistov Maurice de Vlaminka and Raul Dyufi.

At the tender would be to buy the paintings and graphics of people of our country: Vasily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Haim Soutine, Aleksey Yavlenskogo. The greatest attention is attracted «Young polyachka» Soutine, an artist in the late 1920's. Portrait of a mysterious girl (the art dealer Leopold Zborowski said she poet, the artist is said that it was a professional Model) is very typical for creativity Soutine, preferred not to write the highest society, people «the people». Outstanding picture auction experts evaluated in 650-850 thousand pounds.

Sources: artdaily.com , sothebys.com , artinvestment.ru