This summer, the auction house Sotheby's auctioned 141 works of art from the collection of legendary Marchand Ambroise Vollard (Ambroise Vollard). He was one of those dealers, visionaries who are not afraid at the beginning of the century to promote creativity unknown, strange artists who later became famous as a radical innovator, forever changed the way people thought about art. Thus, in 1901, Vollard gave the first solo exhibition of Picasso (Pablo Picasso), and in 1904 - the first solo exhibition of Matisse (Henri Matisse). He collected collection consisted of about 600 works.

After Vollard's death in 1939 (the dealer was killed in a car accident), many works from his collection departed friends and distant relatives. Most of the assistant has received a dealer, a young Croat Jewish Shlomovich Erich (Erich Slomovic). He had to sell the work, but the war interrupted his plans - Shlomovich was forced to flee to the Balkans, taking with them nearly 400 works. Another 141 work he deposited in the Paris bank Société Générale.

Shlomovich In 1942, his father and brother were tragically killed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz Yugoslav Saymiste. Dealer works were brought to the National Museum in Belgrade. Deposit box where he kept the rest of the work was opened in 1979. Since the rent for the cell have been made for many years, the bank decided to sell its contents at auction. But the auction was canceled because of disputes heirs Shlomovicha and Vollard. The agreement between them was reached only in 2006. According to Sotheby's, proceeds at the auction money will go to the heirs of the last.

Upper estimeyt vollarovskih treasures is about 26 million dollars. 22 June auction works of impressionists and modernists in London will be presented to the top lot - fovistsky landscape Andre Derain (André Derain), entitled "Trees in Kolliure '(1905). The picture was valued at 9-14 million pounds (13,8-21,5 million dollars). Perhaps it was exhibited at the famous Salon d'Automne of 1905, one of the critics whose Vauxcelles Louis (Louis Vauxcelles), first described the work of Matisse and Derain "wild» (Fauves), giving name to the whole artistic movement. The current record for creativity Derain is 14,1 million dollars. brought so many picture "Boats in the port Kolliura" at Sotheby's in November 2009 .

June 29 at an auction in Paris, will the remaining 140 works - paintings, drawings, prints and books, which provided a general estimeyt 2,5-3 million euros (3,3-4 million dollars). Among the authors - Paul Cezanne (Paul Cézanne), whose portrait of Emile Zola (Emile Zola) estimated at 500-800 thousand euros, and Pablo Picasso. For early impressions last, entitled "scanty meal" is calculated to rescue thousands 250-400.

also reported that the painting "Trees in Kolliure" show at the pre-auction exhibition in Moscow, New York and Hong Kong.

material prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

Sources : sothebys.com , bloomberg.com , theglobeandmail.com , artinvestment.ru