Saturday, February 6, at 15.00 in the Gallery of Leonid Shishkin's first auction held in 2010 "Russian Classics. XX century ". Pre-auction exhibition is open in the halls of the gallery at: ul. Neglinnaya 29/14. Visit it and get directory is open daily from 12.00 to 20.00, Saturday - from 12.00 to 17.00.

This year, the traditional selection changed.

• Vincent TROFIMOV on the quay (Bretonki)
  1910-e. Cardboard, oil. 62 x 52

many years of Leonid Shishkin Gallery is associated with the art of the Soviet period, mostly in its traditional forms. And this issue remains at the gallery dominant, with an emphasis on first names. To attract the attention of "Portrait of a Woman" 1930 Yury Pimenov , published in his lifetime catalog of the artist, ( estimate 600-800 thousand rubles), an Italian cityscape Fedor Bogorodsky , «brought" to them in 1929 from a trip to Capri to Maxim Gorky (300-400 rubles), a variant of the same name from the State Tretyakov Gallery, paintings Village Widget "twice winner of the Stalin Prize of Academician Vasyl Yakovlev (500-700 rubles), a classic still life president of the Academy of Arts USSR Nikolai Ponomarev (120-150 rubles), recognizable Mozhajskij landscape Sergei Gerasimov (140-180 rubles). Decent work presented and other academics: Dmitry Nalbandian , Pavel Sokolov-Skalya , Boris Yakovlev , Nicholas Romadin , Vladimir Stozharau , though not become an academician, but associated with the best in Soviet painting.

• Yuri Pimenov Portrait of a Woman. 1930-e
  Oil on canvas. 32 x 24

popular "flower" genre before it works great Nicholas Barchenkova (0,9-1,2 million rubles) and November Gedenidze (300-400 rubles) chamber - Alexei Liquorice (120-150 rubles).

first appeared at the auction, and, of course, will not go unnoticed by two portraits (of his wife and daughters) of the famous St. Petersburg man Anatoly Treskin - the restorer of murals Pavlovsk Palace and the Hermitage. Together with large finished landscapes Kuzma Nikolaeva - artist training of pre-revolutionary, Viktor Kiselyov - the nearest associate of Arcadia Plastov , with paintings on the theme of Russian history Ivan Kovalenko , graphics Peter Belousov and David Borowski - all of this, according to the gallery, makes a selection of Soviet painting one of the highest quality in recent years.

• Natalia Goncharova Shepherd. Page from the album "Divine Liturgy". Theater sketch for the ballet
  Massine "Liturgy". 1927
  Paper, mixed technique. 61 x 30

But this time, first introduced in the catalog section of porcelain and lacquer miniature of the Soviet period which has recently become more popular. This author's works of sculptors Paul Kozhina and Nicholas Atyunina, collection jar, painted in Verbilki in 1939, the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (100-150 rubles), boxes of Palekh and Kholui 1930-50-ies. This practice gallery intends to continue.

graphics enthusiasts will find a wide Sterling Works 1920-30-s well-known masters: Nicholas Stipa - «Naked" (120-150 rubles), Leo Bruni , Alexander Vedernikov , Nicholas Kupreyanova , Rostislav Barto , Euphrosyne Ermilova-Platova , Paul Pashkova .

not been forgotten and the fans of non-conformists: they prepared Sterling work from Vladimir Yakovlev , Otari Kandaurova , Aron Buha .

biggest surprise in the collection galleries will work the most popular and expensive artists in the market of Russian art: Natalia Goncharova , Mikhail Larionov , Alexander Yakovlev . True, we tried not to withdraw from our usual price niche and chose poshuary Goncharova and Larionov (700-800 rubles), and Alexander Yakovlev submitted student work, written in 20 years of age and one year donated by M. Tinyakova for his Zemstvo school as evidenced by the inscription made by the author in the picture (0,9-1,2 million rubles).

• PAUL Kozhin Bayan (ancient narrators of the novel" The Lay of Igor's Host "). 1949
  Porcelain, painting

Completing this well-known names String small landscapes Basil Polenova (750-900 rubles), Peter Petrovicheva , Nicholas Dubovsky , Eugene Capitals (all with the assessment of 180-220 thousand rubles) and on the cover of the catalog genre scene "on the quay (Bretonki) », Vikentiya Trofimova , he wrote, apparently, in 1912, during his last trip to France (600-800 rubles).

Source: press release Leonid Shishkin Gallery