Moscow branch of RAD, Crystal Lane, one
pre-auction exhibition: 9-17 November 2012
Auction: 17 November 2012, 15:00

Russian Auction House holds its regular auction November 17, 2012. Pre-auction exhibition will be held in the exhibition hall of the Moscow office of RAD in the arcade, from 9 to 17 November 2012. The exhibition will feature some 200 works.

basis of the collection - Russian and Western European painting of the end XIX - XX century, and crafts and jewelry, including works by Faberge. Among the top lots of the beautiful part - outstanding artists XIX - XX centuries: Krachkovskii Joseph , Mikhail Nesterov , Konstantin Makovsky , , Julius Clover , Stanislav Zhukovsky , Arseny Meshchersky , Ilya Zankovsky .

auction house also present a number of unique jewelry work Russian masters of the late XIX - early XX century. Among the most valuable - items Faberge. For example, an ashtray with a swastika, was commissioned by the Empress Maria Feodorovna, obviously, as a gift for his daughter. Also unusual medallion in a six-pointed star of the Madonna and Child. This is a rare product, was not present in the 1970's, is the first time entering the market.

highlighted in a separate section of antiquarian books. All editions of undoubted collection value. For example, the legendary Russian avant-garde book - "City. Verses "Alexander Rubakin, published in Paris in 1920. Cover and drawings made Natalia Goncharova . Copies of the book was only 325 copies, of which the first 25 were published in the old Chinese hand-made paper. Put up for auction instance - № 3. No less interesting is the first Russian edition of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" in 1968.

special place in the exhibition will take a symbolic collection of works by leading classics of the national and world photography. Selection of works covers the period from the end of XIX century to the modern days, beginning with the studio photographer of the Imperial Court of Karl Bulla "Leo Tolstoy with his sister Maria Nikolaevna," and ending with works still alive classic Leonid Lazarev. Among the lots is to emphasize the famous work Alexander Rodchenko «Mayakovsky Skotikom dog." Foreign authors are working Margaret Bourke-White was filmed in 1930 at the Russian Embassy in America. Including work Bourke-White in the catalog - good luck for any European auction, and at a public auction in Russia this author first presented. Of particular interest are the classics of Soviet and Russian photography Valery Gende-Rote , depicting the arrival of Sophia Loren in the USSR in 1965.

Traditionally fotoauktsion gathered a galaxy of stars of the national image, such as Shagin , Yevgeny Khaldei , Simon Friedland and others. At this time, a small list of works, each of them is of great interest to collectors and lovers of photography.

Source : press release RAD