June 18 at the Hotel Radisson Royal "(Ukraine) held the last of the season antique auctions. Opens the pre-auction show

Saturday, June 18 at 15.00 in the Leonid Shishkin Gallery (Hotel Radisson Royal "(Ukraine), Kutuzov Avenue, 2 /1, p. 1, Hall" Veranda 2 ") opens Last season in the past auction antique pieces. Trade Catalogue includes 136 works, divided into several strings on the chronological and stylistic principle.

• ALEXANDER Beggrov
  Shopping folk outside St. Basil's Cathedral
  Cardboard, mixed media. 70 x 56
  Estimate: 9.8 million rubles
  Leonid Shishkin Gallery. 18/06/2011. Lot 37

Among the top lots - large-scale watercolor Alexander Beggrow « Shopping folk outside St. Basil's Cathedral "(estimate 8-9 million rubles). It is rare for the capital's marine painter, pupil AP Bogolyubov , the form of Moscow. Landscape with a genre scene in the foreground contrasts sharply with panoramic views of St. Petersburg and the image of port cities, which many in the heritage of the painter. If other papers are the only people Beggrow staffazhem, in this case, the actors are equally becoming the city and its residents. Before the audience turns on the remarkable accuracy of his picture of everyday life in Moscow late XIX century.

• PETER VERESHCHAGIN view of the city Melekess
  Oil on canvas. 42 x 76
  Estimate: 11-12 million rubles
  Leonid Shishkin Gallery. 18/06/2011. Lot 13

Another outstanding landscape painted by Peter Vereshchagin - a type of Volga Melekess (now called Dimitrovgrad, estimate 11.12 million), one of a number of small Russian towns, written by the artist in during his travels in Russia. Balanced composition, a warm color, meticulous detail and fine Modeling transmission of light and air - easily recognizable features of the Russian academic landscape.

CONSTANTINE Huon Runaround. Copyright repeating pattern "Runaround. Vnukovo, Moscow Region "(1903). 1903 - early 1920 Watercolour, white. 32 x 48 Estimate: 8-10 million rubles Leonid Shishkin Gallery. 18/06/2011. Lot 33

String classical charts please first names: collectors will be offered work Konstantin Juon (« Runaround "from the collection of Lydia Brody , author repeating pattern" Runaround. Vnukovo Moscow Province; estimate 8-10 million rubles), Ivan Shishkin , Ivan Archaeology , Vladimir and Konstantin Makovsky , Alexander Benois .

Boris Grigoriev Portrait of a woman in a green dress. 1933 Oil on canvas. 102 x 77 Estimate: 9,5-12 million rubles Leonid Shishkin Gallery. 18/06/2011. Lot 47

Individual attention works by artists of the Russian diaspora. "Portrait of a woman in a green dress (estimate: 9,5-12 million) written Boris Grigoriev in 1933 in the USA. Works by this time features a restraint of color, master elect ascetic range of ash and ocher tones and combines it with deep black eyes in his pale face detached models - so create an individualized and memorable female image. Another top lot in this series - "Portrait of Barbara Grigorevny Staheevoy", full Basil Shuhaeva in France 1920-30-ies.

Yuri Pimenov Pineapple. From the series "Things people." 1968 Oil on canvas. 43 x 29 Estimate: 1,6-2,2 million rubles Leonid Shishkin Gallery. 18/06/2011. Lot 69

Section of Soviet art is represented brilliant names OSTovtsev Sergei Luchishkina and Alexander Labasa , academics Vladimir Serov and Porfiry Krylov , «Sixties» Vladimir Stozharova and Viktor Popkov . Indisputable decoration of Thong - statement Yuri Pimenov «Pineapple" from the series "Things people" (estimate: 1.6 -2.2 million). This is an excellent example of the typical artist of the genre - the so-called humanized still life, in which inanimate objects is expressed through the moods and emotions of the hero, only briefly, as it seems, departed beyond the canvas. Worthy setting for the paintings serve as a worksheet with three graphic nature sketches derived from the artist's family.

Oscar Rabin street country town. 1986 Plywood, oil. 48 x 65 Estimate: 1,3-1,6 million rubles Leonid Shishkin Gallery. 18/06/2011. Lot 108

After the successful sale of work Vladimir Veisberg and Vladimir Yakovlev on April bidding Leonid Shishkin Gallery included a directory of summer auction several works of non-conformists. Expressive manner Anatoly Zverev easily recognizable in the abstract composition "(estimate: 1,4-1,8 million rubles ) and "Portrait of a Woman" (estimate 530-650 thousand rubles). "A street of a provincial town» Oscar Rabin (estimate: 1,3-1,6 million), in contrast, surprised by this master uncharacteristic tenderness, flavor. Three pastels Vladimir Yankylevsky - an illustration for the story Saltykov-Shchedrin's "The Story of a City" - are offered one lot with the estimate 1,8-2,2 million rubles.

next experiment Leonid Shishkin Gallery associated with setting up for auction, not only of Russian and Soviet classics, but also to Western art XVII - XIX centuries. It is worth mentioning the classic Flemish still life with oysters and a glass brush Cornelis Mahu, multi-religious composition of "a penny of Caesar," genre "Portrait of the artist with an assistant," written in the studio of the famous Gerard Dou, etching by the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Gallery is pleased to note a growing interest in auctions from the beginning collectors, and by tradition a few lots will be put up for auction with a low starting price - 3000 rubles. This scenery Shurpin and Evsei Reshin , schedule Dmitry Lebedev , sketches of theatrical costumes Catherine Grain and other works, the actual market value is several times higher than stated.

As for the anniversary auction in April, anyone can bargain for the lots on the Internet, it is necessary first to leave a request on-line participation (registration closes one day before the auction begins).

Leonid Shishkin Gallery provides an opportunity to watch the auction in real time (on-line listening only available to registered users). Already on the site gallery www.shishkin-gallery.ru can leave correspondence bids on the lots that interest.

Pre-auction show opens today and runs until 17 June inclusive, time: 12:00 to 20:00, from 20:00 to 22:00 - by appointment.

Source : shishkin-gallery.ru