This week we are waiting for another Russian auctions, auction houses arranged Sotheby's (21 -22 April) and Christie's (April 23). ARTinvestment.RU talks about some interesting lots.

at Sotheby's will present several works Paul Chelishchev from the collection of a close friend of the painter, the poet Charles Henri Ford (Charles Henri Ford) and his sister Ruth. Large-scale surrealistic paintings 1930's and 1940's ("Hide and Seek," "Phenomenon") were a crowd favorite, but scorned by critics: chief theoretician of abstract expressionism Clement Greenberg (Clement Greenberg) in his review of Chelishchev retrospective at New York's MoMA said that the paintings "have broken all records of vulgarity. Equally far from the artist's work and the more recent trends - Pop Art and Conceptualism, preferred mysticism and "space" comment about the society. But I must say that the bright, hallucinatory aesthetics Chelishchev anticipated directions that are away from the "official" history of modern art: psychedelic art of the 1960's, as well as "Visionary Art» (visionary art) and pop surrealism. In 1998, after decades of oblivion, in the town of Katonah (NY) held its retrospective, which has led some critics (including writing for Artforum, one of the main mouthpieces of conceptual art) to declare that it is time to reassess work of this painter. At Sotheby's possible to buy beautiful, decorative Chelishchev different periods and styles: the late "neon" ("Red Man", 1949, 25-35 thousand dollars, "Flying Cat", 1956, 35-45 thousand dollars), salon-surreal (Portrait of Ruth Ford, 1937, 150-200 thousand dollars), pikassoidnye ("Two male figures," 60-80 thousand dollars) and realistic with homoerotic slant ("man in tattoos, 1934, 250-350 thousand dollars) .

• PAUL Chelishchev A man in tattoos. 1934
  canvas. 100,5 x 73,5
  Sotheby's. 22/04/2010. Lot № 304
  estimate: 250-350 thousand dollars
• Konstantin Korovin Vichy
  Oil on canvas . 69 x 97
  Sotheby's. 22/04/2010. Lot № 319
  estimate: 300-500 thousand dollars

highest estimeyt on Sotheby's Russian sales assigned to the painting "colored impressionist» Konstantin Korovin : painting entitled "Vichy" is estimated at 300 - 500 thousand. Interestingly, this work is greatly affected by the price correction: at Sotheby's November 5, 2008 "Vichy" purchased for $ 250 thousand dollars in Estima 500-700 thousand.

in the 300-400 thousand appreciate quite "Still life with fish and flowers" Russian avant-garde legends Natalia Goncharova , author's most expensive work among the Russian artists (" Spanish flu ", 6.43 million pounds) . Three years ago at Christie's painting was sold for 90 thousand pounds (177,3 thousand dollars) for Estima 30-50 thousand pounds. November 2 last year at Sotheby's appeared canvas with a comparable story ,. At the time, auction house experts evaluated the work of 400-600 thousands, and left it for 806,5 thousand.

• Natalia Goncharova
  Still life with fish and flowers. 51 x 66
  Sotheby's. 22/04/2010. Lot № 323
  estimate: 300-400 thousand dollars
• > Boris Grigoriev Still Life with a cat and onions. Ok. 1928. Oil on canvas. 54,5 x 72,5
  Sotheby's. 22/04/2010. Lot № 334
  estimate: 300-400 thousand dollars

at auction can also be will buy two paintings Boris Grigoriev : «Still Life with a cat and onions, approx. 1928 (300-400 thousand), and "Still life with bread and vegetables, presumably, created in 1930 (200-300 thousand). Pictures included in major exhibitions of Russian art: the first still life in the exhibition "American Artists from the Russian Empire", the second - at the exhibition "Time to collect».

from the picture Yuri Pimenov « Morning Window (1959) Sotheby's expects record. This work was estimeyt 250-350 thousand dollars, and its author is one of the most popular masters of Soviet art.

• YURI PIMENOV Morning box. 1959
  canvas. 149 x 86,5
  Sotheby's. 22/04/2010. Lot № 357
  estimate: 250-350 thousand dollars

at Christie's on Friday will also be presented Tchelitchew (the most expensive work - a dark "Portrait of a Man", 1932, 30-50 thousand dollars), as well as a lot of work Burliuk . Pictures of the last diverged very well in the recent auction works from the collection of Nina Abrams (Nina Abrams ) . One painting, "Harvest Song" (1936), estimated at 80-120 thousand dollars, then bought for 422.5 thousand. The highest estimeyt (60-80 thousand dollars) at Christie's received "Two girls in the garden" - a colorful fabric with elements of futurism.

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• Konstantin Makovsky
  Returning from a walk. 1907. Oil on canvas. 139.4 x 78,1
  Christie's. 23.04.10. Lot № 7
  estimate: 400-600 thousand dollars

Painting salon artist Konstantin Makovsky «back from a walk" (1907) estimated at 400-600 thousand. This romantic piece comes from the collection in which it was stored since 1955. Makovsky is today one of the most popular artists of the XIX century: from 1999 to 2009 its price index rose almost 9 times. It is true, then the correction has occurred, but not dramatic.

April 23 also will be another important auction - BRIC at Phillips de Pury. More information about the Russian read lots here.

material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

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