«Contemporary Art» Gallery «SOVKOM»
ARTinvestment.RU   14 ноября 2008

From 14 to 18 November 2008 at the Gallery «SOVKOM» opened the pre-exhibition «Modern Art». The exhibition is open daily from 10.00 to 20.00

From 14 to 18 November 2008 at the Gallery «SOVKOM» opened the pre-exhibition «Modern Art». The exhibition is open daily from 10.00 to 20.00.

Auction house «SOVKOM» first conducting a full auction of contemporary art. This important event not only for the auction house, but for the history of the commercial representation of contemporary Russian art at home. Following the success of a number of auction SOVKOMa with the inclusion of lots of modern art, as well as charity auctions of contemporary art, held with the participation of the auction house «SOVKOM», it was decided to fully devote one of the auctions, the Russian post-war and contemporary art and the latest to hold it in the future regularly.

The purpose of the auction to present the broadest possible range of works of modern art. It includes 130 lots, starting with the later work Ermilova , the representative of constructivism, thus emphasizing the continuity of contemporary Russian art to the first Russian avant-garde.

Items greatest masters of «second avant-garde» ( V. Sitnikov , O. Rabin , E. Mikhnov-Voitenko , Boris Sveshnikov , V. Yakovlev , E. Chubarov , B. Nemukhin and etc.) - this selection of chamber music, but the important works that are directly related to the history of the underground. The composition of the auction included the leaders of the major social-art and emerging trends, such as B. Bahchanyan , T. P. Novikov , S. Bugaev (Africa) , D. Vrubel , Latishev , Among the top auction lots - work Vladimir Вейсберга «Still life with white coffee pot and lemon» (1956-1958, estimeyt 2 380 000-2 500 000 rubles), Shablavin «alarm» (1989, 425 000-500 000 rubles), Mikhail Shemyakin «Carcase» (1971, 1 400 000 rubles), Timur Novikov «Pioner ball» (1992, 750 000-875 000 rubles), Farida Bogdalova «Perestroika» (1991, 1 000 000-1 250 000 rubles), Michael Roginsky « The car came »(1998, 500 000-625 000 rubles), two large canvas B. Mamysheva-Monroe (2006, 625 000-750 000 rubles each).

will be represented by a unique and small sculptures of museum value Ernst Neizvestny (550 000-625 000 rubles), Pre-exhibition is open from 14 November to 18 November at the premises of the gallery «SOVKOM», daily from 10.00 to 20.00.

Introduction director of auction house «SOVKOM» Yuri Tyuhtina catalog auction «Contemporary Art» 19 Nov, 2008 can be viewed here .

Source: Press Releases galleries «SOVKOM»