At the auction will be presented paintings Vereshchagin, Feshina, Goncharova, Kustodiev Shishkin and other artists

Natalia Goncharova
Moscow street.
1909 Oil on canvas. 65h79
Sotheby's New York, 11.01.2011
Estimate: 1.2-1.5 million
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Kustodiev
Fireworks. The Bronze Horseman
Board, oil. 99.5 x 100
Sotheby's New York City, 1.11.2011
Estimate: 3-4 million dollars
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November 1 in New York will hold its annual fall auction of Sotheby's, on sell important works of Russian art. Buyers will offer 26 works of museum level - from the paintings of the XIX century until the early twentieth century avant-garde art and the Soviet era. It is expected that the auction will 19,4-28,2 million dollars, the average estimate of upcoming auction lot is about a million.

At the auction will feature works from the collections of the two American museums. This painting, "Pearl Mosque in Delhi» , which is put up for auction Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)), as well as three works by Nikolai Nicholas Feshina from the Museum of cowboys and Wild West heritage (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum) in Oklahoma, including the painting "Cheremis wedding." Several works are displayed on 18-20 October in Moscow on October 26 at Sotheby's York Avenue galleries will host an exhibition of all lots of the upcoming auction.

Story « wedding Cheremis "Nicholas Feshina (estimate 3-5 million dollars) was inspired by travels in Feshina village near Kazan in the summer of 1906 and 1907, where the artist observed the life of the indigenous population, in particular Cheremises (formerly known as Mari). The painting depicts traditional folk wedding in the village of Lipschitz. According to an old folk tradition the couple after the wedding, again separately returned to the family home and have not met for a week. On the canvas Feshin captured the moment when bride and groom, reunited, are sent to their new family hearth.

work Vasily Vereshchagin "Pearl Mosque in Delhi" - a product of the famous Indian author series. Estimate 3-5 million dollars. Canvas 4 x 5 feet provided the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1874, Vereshchagin and his wife traveled to India, which lasted two years. On his return to Paris in 1876 he began work on "Pearl Mosque, Delhi" - the largest in size of its work and one of the most monumental in spirit to his work.

works of Russian artists of the nineteenth century will be presented, and the picture «Sandy Beach" (1879, estimate: 1.2 -1.8 million ).

on the cover of the catalog of upcoming trades placed work "Moskovskaya Street" (1909, estimate of 1.2-1.5 million dollars). Goncharova was one of the major artists and innovators of his generation, and today she is the author of the most expensive paintings, written by the woman and heads the world's top artists in the number of deals with their products.

Other works of the early twentieth century, which will be presented at the auction - it works Petr Konchalovsky and Nicholas Roerich . Konchalovsky has finished painting, "Pine" (estimate: 0.8-1.2 million) in 1920 - paintings of this period is now most in demand among collectors. On the stroke of fullness, color and shape of the painting "Pines" is read as soon as the product of an artist who belonged to the group of "Jack of Diamonds" (in its creation in 1909, participated Konchalovsky). Cloth Roerich "And we continue fishing" - the fourth of six works of the series «Sancta» (estimate of 1.2-1.5 million dollars). Allegorical paintings illustrate the cycle of transmission of different stages of the spiritual path, and among the artist's works of the 1920s, they stand out because of its traditional Russian imagery. Simplicity of forms and subjects of paintings cycle refer viewers to the iconographic tradition.

At the auction will be presented paintings of the Soviet period: among them is the "Fireworks. The Bronze Horseman » with the estimate 3-4 million dollars. In 1918, representatives of the new government turned to the issue with the order Kustodiev celebrating the first anniversary of the October Revolution, and the artist created a series of large-scale mural, decorating the Shotgun area of ​​Petrograd. In all likelihood, the work of "Fireworks. The Bronze Horseman "entered in this festive cycle.

Prepared Estrova Maria, AI

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