April 24, 2010 at 15 o'clock Leonid Shishkin Gallery will hold a 89-second auction "Russian Art", providing collectors a more than 100 works of Russian and Soviet artists of XIX - XX centuries.

The undisputed top lot coming auction - composition Peter Efimovich Sokolova «Singer 1920 (estimate 2-2,5 million rubles). AP Sokolov, one of the unjustly neglected masters of Russian avant-garde, a student and the teacher was the renowned Soviet nonconformist Vladimir Nemukhin . Thus, his art became a kind of bridge between the two waves of abstraction in Russia - the beginning of the century and the postwar period. Offered for sale the work is done after the Revolution of 1917 and is an excellent example of innovative exploration of the first decades of Soviet rule. The theme and style of this work resemble Cubist compositions Hope Udaltsova 1910-ies, in particular its famous "seamstress" (1912-1913) from the Tretyakov Gallery.

• SOKOLOV PE Composition "Singer" 1920-e.
  canvas. 70 x 88
  estimate: 2 000 000-2 500 000 rubles. Lot № 38
• Gorbatov KI Summer day. 1915
  Oil on wood. 21 x
  29 estimate: 1 300 000-1 800 000 rub. Lot № 44

Next in importance - a group of works of famous artists of the late XIX - early XX century, whose names are not only firmly established in the history of Russian art, but also occupy a leading position in the ratings of auction sales in leading Western auctions. Among them - Konstantin Gorbatov , whose landscape "Summer Day" is estimated to be 1,3-1,8 million rubles. Student N. Dubovsky and Kiseleva , a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Gorbatov more than 20 years lived abroad - first in Italy and then in Germany, where he died in Berlin in May 1945. Despite the fact that most of the artistic heritage of the artist after his death was transferred to the Soviet Union, his work for many years had been virtually unknown in the country and only recently rediscovered it thanks to the wide occurrence Gorbatova works on the art market. Landscape "Summer Day" in 1915 written in the period when the artist returned from the pensioner's trip to Europe, lived in Russia. Apparently, the work belongs to a cycle of paintings, which depicted Gorbatov home for his bank of the Volga.

will be sold at an auction of several other artists whose work divided into two distinct phases - before and after emigration. One of the founders of the famous association beginning of the twentieth century "World of Art» Alexander Benois presented watercolor "Fountain" Neptune " from the famous series of fountains of Peterhof and the Great Palace (estimate 1,3-1,5 million rubles). Created in the 1918-1922 years of the continuing cycle of Versailles artist: Benoit portrays the "Russian Versailles" - Peterhof, Pavlovsk Oranienbaum and glorifying the beauty and grandeur of architecture of the XVIII century and its harmony with the surrounding Russian nature.

• Benois N. Peterhof. Fountains at the Grand Palace. Fountain of Neptune. 1918-1922. Paper "laid paper, pencil, watercolor, whitewash. 30 x 46
  estimate: 1 300 000 - 1 500 000 rubles. Lot № 40
• Konstantin Korovin Winter landscape
  cardboard see equipment. 34 x 42
  estimate: 800 000-900 000 rub. Lot № 51

At the April auction will be exhibited later work colleague A. Benoit for "World of Art » Konstantin Korovin « Winter Landscape "(estimate 800-900 thousand rubles), written in exile. In 1920 in Paris, the artist continues to write nostalgic landscapes of the homeland - the Russian winter, triplets, the peasants' huts. Student Konstantin Korovin, another representative of the Russian émigré » Alex Isupov , by contrast, presented his early work:" Portrait of a Woman "1910-s created, probably as early as the period of study at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, or in the first years after graduation.

For fans of the Russian realist school of painting Gallery Leonid Shishkin produced several works great landscape painters of the late XIX - early XX century. First of all, it is unusual for the artist's "Cityscape" outstanding Russian painter and watercolorist Lev Lagorio (эстимейт 1 3-1,5 million rubles). In addition, the bidding exhibited works Alexander Egornova («Crimean landscape, estimeyt 350-450 thousand . rubles), Peter Petrovicheva («Etude with peasant, estimeyt 300-350 thousand rubles) Alexis Corina (two works: "Evening Landscape with estimeytom 260-280 thousand rubles and" Landscape with house "with estimeytom 280-320 thousand rubles).

• PMIS AV Portrait of a Woman. 1910-e
  canvas. 58 x 46
  estimate: 1 100 000 - 1 200 000 rubles. Lot № 45
• Lagorio LF Cityscape. 1859
  canvas. 26 x 30
  estimate: 1 300 000-1 500 000 rubles. Lot № 48

upcoming auction includes works of different periods and directions of Russian art from the avant-garde, represented, In particular, the two still-life of the famous futurist Cyril Zdanevich (with the same estimeytami 220-250 thousand rubles) to the Soviet Art 1960-70-ies. The most interesting collection of works of the classics of Soviet art - Arcadia Plastov , whose autumn etude estimated at 500-550 thousand rubles, Sergei Gerasimov and « Kukryniksy » Porfiry Krylov and Mikhail Kupriyanov . At the auction will be on display do not have already become paradigmatic of the famous cartoons of the creative team, but more rare work created by artists separately in 1940-60-ies: "Peredelkino" and "Flowers in the window," Porfiry Krylov, "The Sea of Azov and the Crimean landscape Mikhail Kupriyanov.

Besides painting, at the April auction will be interesting graphics and sculpture: the remarkable pictures Vladimir Lebedev and Sergei Luchishkina , as well as" Portrait of Maxim Gorky " (estimate 200-300 thousand rubles) of the legendary sculptor Ivan Shadr, creator of the famous song "cobblestone - a weapon of the proletariat" and the monument to Maxim Gorky.

• Zdanevich K. Still Life with Grapes
  1960-e. Board, see the technique. 39 x 44
  estimate: 220 000-250 000 rub. Lot № 29
• LAYERS AA Autumn etude with winter. 1940-e
  canvas, cardboard, oil. 34 x 48
  estimate: 500 000-550 000 rub. Lot number 75

auction will be held on Saturday 24 April at 15:00 at the address: Str. Neglinnaya 29/14. Open pre-auction exhibition. Hours of the exhibition: Monday - Friday: 12.00-20.00, Saturday: 12.00-17.00.

Source: shishkin-gallery.ru