At an auction in Miami portrait by Valentin Serov was sold for 4.67 million dollars
Valentin Serov Portrait of Oscar and Rose Gruzenberg.
1910 Tempera on canvas. 100 x 62
FAAM. 12/06/2012. Lot 62
Estimate: 150-200 thousand dollars
Result: 4.67 million
At the auction of paintings and sculptures by the American auction house FAAM (Fine Art Auction Miami ) December 6, set a new record price for a work Valentin Serov Valentin . "Portrait of Oscar and Rose Gruzenberg" (lot 62) sold for 4.67 million dollars. This was reported online auction house . Estimate pair portrait by Serov in 1910, was only 150-200 thousand dollars. This sensational sale at auction a little-known auction house in Miami all the more surprising that the previous record of Serov, set just a week earlier at the higher-profile Russian auction Sotheby's, was "only" 1.2 million pounds. Many brought «Portrait Praskovia Anatolievna Mammoth» , written 22-year old artist in 1887.
Oscar Osipovich Gruzenberg (1866, LOTS, now Dnepropetrovsk - 1940, Nice, is buried in the local cemetery, in 1950 reburied in Tel Aviv, Israel) - Russian lawyer, journalist and social activist, defender of the rights of the Jews. He graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Kiev. Specialist in Senate decisions. One of the editors of the criminal division in the journal "Law", in charge of the criminal court in the "Journal of the St. Petersburg Law Society." As an advocate involved in M. Bayliss. After the February Revolution, was appointed a senator, was elected to the Constituent Assembly. Since 1920, in exile, he worked in the magazine "Modern Notes." In 1921-1923 he lived in Berlin, in 1926-1932 - in Riga, where he practices, and founded a monthly legal journal "The law and the court." In 1931 he finally settled in Nice. Member of the Union of Russian lawyers abroad. Published legal articles and essays. Paris released a book of memoirs, "Yesterday" (1938). He died in Nice in 1940. In the portrait Serov he portrayed with his wife Rose, née Goloskover, which biographical data, unfortunately, there is still very little. Portrait of four Gruzenberg, according to the catalog FAAM, was put up for auction in Miami their granddaughter.
Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI
Sources : faamiami.com , faamiami.com , dommuseum.ru , artinvestment.ru
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