May 6 in New York will take place day trades Impressionist and Modern works

6 May in New York will be held daily auction Sotheby's, where you can buy works of the Impressionists and modernists. As in auction to be held May 5 , here Ball ruled paintings painter Al-deco Tamara Tamara de Lempitski .

Top-lot auction is a painting Lempitski «Phone II» (1930), is estimated to be 0,8-1,2 million dollars. It depicts a typical glamorous diva in 1930's - with gold kudryashkami, eyebrows «in nitochku», densely nakrashennymi ÁÌÏÊ lipstick lips and cold eyes. In addition to this picture, the auction will be five more of the artist. Among them, «The woman in black dress» (1923), which Sotheby's experts evaluated in the 500-700 thousand dollars. According to the researchers of creativity Lempitski, this painting depicts Ira Perrot (Ira Perrot), close friend and perhaps lover artist. Cloth was written when Lempitska was very young and still «grope» its own style. On the canvas signed «T. De Lempitzky» - at the very beginning of his career, the artist signed the male family name, considering that the collectors of works of art is much more likely to buy the painting paintings male.

At Sotheby's will also buy the painting «The wreath of flowers II» (ca. 1932, estimeyt 200-300 thousand dollars ), «Opera» (1941, 300-400 thousand dollars ), «Portrait of Evelyn P.» (1932, 80-120 thousand dollars ) and the «key» (ca. 1946, 100-150 thousands of dollars ). All the work of Tamara de Lempitski offered for bidding, come from the collections of the famous German designer Wolfgang Yoopa (Wolfgang Joop).

among other top auction lots - a bronze «Standing figure» work Jacques Lipschitz . This sculpture, cast in 1916 in seven copies, estimated at 500-700 thousand dollars. Lipszyc, born in 1891 in Lithuania and moved to Paris at the age of 18, is one of the major innovators of Cubism. He became one of the first artists who was able to translate the ideas of Picasso and marriage in the sculpture. His «Standing figure», with its strict geometric forms and the predominance of vertical elements - it is almost abstract. The current record for Lipschitz product was installed in February 2007, when a bronze sculpture «Sailor with Guitar» was sold at Sotheby's auction for 920 thousand pounds (1.8 million dollars) at estimeyte 400-600 thousand pounds.

In addition to the work Lipschitz, the attention of collectors will be represented by the sculpture of many prominent artists of the twentieth century - Barbara Hepvort (Barbara Hepworth), Alexander Arkhipenko , Arpa, Jean (Jean Arp), Max Ernst (Max Ernst), Henry Moore (Henry Moore). One of the most interesting lots is a sculpture «Woman and Birds» Catalan surrealist Joan Miro (Joan Miró). This work, performed in 1972, estimated at 400-600 thousand dollars. «Woman and Birds» recalls surreal objects and sculptures by Picasso, which were the basis for the assemblages from the utilitarian objects (remember the work « Crane »).

High estimeyt at Sotheby's were also two landscapes - «Coast. ETRETAT »Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse) and the« white landscape with the river »Pierre Bonnard (Pierre Bonnard). Both works are estimated at 500-700 thousand dollars. The painting Matisse was written in 1920, when the artist lived in Normandy with his wife and daughter. Several landscapes Matisse, written in ETRETAT. Specialists believe that the creation of these works the artist was inspired by the landscape paintings of Gustave Courbet (Gustave Courbet), also once lived in the Norman town. The work of Pierre Bonnard was created around 1916 in the South of France. In this work, clearly visible «impressionisticheskie» roots of the artist. However, unlike the Impressionists Bonnard did not write landscapes in the open air - he made photographs and sketches from nature, and paintings created in the studio.

There is also a watercolor Vasily Vasily Kandinsky under the title «Thin soul», estimated at 300-400 thousand dollars. This work was created in 1925, when the artist lived in Dessau, and taught at the Art Institute Bauhaus. Scenic and graphic works created by them at that time, much less expressive and more abstract and «geometric», as «Songs», «impressions» and «Improvisation» previous decade. The main element of song «thin the soul», as well as many other works of that time, a circle - a symbol of perfect sensual form. Kandinsky wrote: «The terms, which I used in recent times so often, can be described not only as a romantic. And this romance has a deeper, more beautiful, meaningful and beneficial, it is - a piece of ice, in which a flaming fire. And if people feel only the cold and do not feel the fire - so much the worse for them ... »« Cold romance »the artist of his own paintings with the work of his friend Paul Klee (Paul Klee), who also taught at the Bauhaus with Kandinsky and lived in one house .

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

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