Russian bid to Christie's on June 6 will be a group of works from the collection of George Kostaki
Twelve lots of future trading in Russian art in London come from the collection of the famous collector George Costakis: work Tselkov, Krasnopevtsev Infante, Rabin, Zvereva, Yakovleva, Schwartzman, Kropivnitskogo, Shelkovskoy
to "the Russian bid» Christie's, which will be held June 6 in London will be a group of works from the collection of the famous collector of Russian art George Dionisovicha Kostaki (1913-1990). This work Oscar Rabin , Francisco Infante , Tselkova , Igor Shelkovskoy , Dmitry Krasnopevtseva , Anatoly Zverev , Leo Kropivnitskogo , Vladimir Yakovlev and Michael Schwartzman (lots 69-80).
The world-famous collector George Costakis many consider only a collector of Russian avant-garde. But this is not true. From 1930 to 1946 Kostaki, who worked in the Greek Embassy in Moscow, created a collection of works by Old Masters and of decorative art - porcelain, textiles, silver, Russian, etc. It was only in 1946 George began collecting Dionisovich mainly Russian avant-garde, gradually selling off its previous acquisition, to have money to buy new works. And since 1956 in his Moscow apartment, began to appear the work of his contemporary painters - those who later would be called nonconformists.
Oscar Rabin
Untitled. 1961
Oil on canvas. 110 x 90
Collection Dionysus Kostaki
Christie's. 06/06/2011. Lot № 69
Estimate: 40-60 thousand pounds
Source:
mask and a dragonfly. 1976
Oil on canvas. 64.5 x 54,5
Collection Dionysus Kostaki
Christie's. 06/06/2011. Lot number 73
Estimate: 15-20 thousand pounds
Source:
Since the beginning of 1960 x-famous apartment Kostaki became the center of the Moscow art scene. Many young artists for the first time got acquainted here with the then banned the works of Russian avant-garde.
When the family Kostaki in the late 1970's emigrated from the Soviet Union in Greece, George Dionisovich gave the Tretyakov Gallery and the greater the better part of his collection Russian avant-garde. Work of non-conformists, he took with him, and they have since passed on - first son, Alexander, and after her grandson, Dionysus Kostaki.
In 1997, Greece bought in 1250 Kostaki works of Russian non-conformists, who formed the core of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki. Twelve papers, which are now exhibited at Christie's, have remained in the family. Most of them participated in the exhibition "The Soviet alternative art. 1956-1988 ", organized by the Museum of Thessaloniki in 2006.
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