Auction House "Kabinet" finishes the season of summer series of trades

June 18-19 will be held three auctions. Pre-sale exhibition opens on June 11

Auction House "Kabinet", 18-19 June 2013
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10, CHA, 1st floor, room number 1

18-19 June 2013 "Kabinet" will hold three auctions:

June 18, 2013:

«Orders, medals, insignia of the Russian Empire» (from 15.00).

« Russian paintings and drawings XIX - XX centuries » (from 18.00).

June 19, 2013:

«Old and rare books, maps, prints» (from 18.00).

Predpokaz and presentation of collections of auctions will be held tomorrow, June 11th, from 18.00 to 21.00 in the Exhibition Hall Auction House "Kabinet" in CHA

pre-auction exhibition runs from 11 to 18 June 2013, daily from 11.00 to 19.00.

POLENOV VD At Sea of ​​Galilee
The end of 1890 - beginning of 1900
canvas on cardboard, oil. 36 x 71
Kabinet. 18.06.2013. Lot 9
Estimate: 9-14 million rubles
Source: press release of the auction house "Kabinet»

among the absolute top auction lots «Russian paintings and drawings XIX-XX centuries "on June 18 - Vasily Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov « I Genisaretskogo Lake "from his famous series" Life of Christ "(" Palestinian studies "), over which Polenov worked in the late 1890s - early 1900s. Painting is an option (study) of which is in the Yaroslavl Art Museum, but has a significant difference. Right down on the mountain path, the artist placed a small figure of the traveler, in which the viewer will definitely want to guess the figure of Christ. Contrast the scale of landscape and figure makes imbued with philosophical idea that man himself is part of the universe. Many landscapes and long journeys Polenova were associated with finding places where Christ lived. The artist once he went the way of Christ on foot from Galilee to Jerusalem.

For thirty years, Polenov creating paintings from the Gospels. Reflecting on the experience of traveling, Polenov constantly reworked sketches made from life, repeatedly returning to the same subjects. Nature, the former witness of the Gospel miracles, acquired in the eyes of the artist's special value and importance, relegating to the background the figure of people. Polenov wrote Leo Tolstoy: "My paintings are mainly images of nature and the environment in which committed the Gospel events».

NK Roerich Sketch. From the series "Ladoga". 1918 Oil on plywood. 22 x 49,5 Kabinet. 18.06.2013. Lot 37 Estimate: 5,5-7 million rubles Source: press release of the auction house "Kabinet»

Put up for auction sketch Nicholas Nicholas Roerich from the series "Ladoga "1918 is one of the most important moments of the life of the artist. Once in exile in Finland in 1918, Roerich created a series of works which he called "the last Russian paintings." With these works, he went to Sweden, where he organized his first overseas exhibition. That the works of 1917-1918 Roerich came to worldwide recognition.

Schilder AN By nightfall. 1917 Oil on canvas. 90 x 104 Kabinet. 18.06.2013. Lot 35 Estimate: 5.5-9 million rubles Source: press release of the auction house "Kabinet»

lyrical landscape Schilder «By Night" was exhibited at the 45th traveling exhibition in 1917 - the last show of the Wanderers in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Schilder - one of the famous Russian landscape painters of the late XIX - early XX century. His art combines the best features of the classical landscape I. Shishkin , whose favorite disciple he was, and subtle lyricism and impressionism inherent patterns I. Levitan , which Andrei Schilder openly admired. Painting "By Night" and refers to the late artist's best period. Contemporaries Schilder noted that epic lyricism of his paintings exhibited in the 1910s on the road shows in Moscow and St. Petersburg, bears obvious Levitanovsky features and it differs very thin knowledge of nature and the highest skill in the transfer of nuances of light. Presented at the trading landscape "By Night" refers to the best examples of creativity Schilder.

A picturesque auction will also feature a large collection of works by Alexander Benois . The earliest of these refers to 1903 - the famous journey Benoit A. Ostroumova-Lebedeva in Italy: "Villa Aldobrandini. Frascati "is written with pastels, which was quite peculiar to the artist. The latest time work - "Senate Square in St. Petersburg" (1939) on the back of the picture attached Benoit letter to his friend Walter Nouvel, which describes the events of their overall campus life at the beginning of the twentieth century, depicted in the painting.

Arnshtam AM The patient Harlequin. 1915 Watercolor and pencil. 36 x 52,8 Kabinet. 18.06.2013. Lot 31 Estimate: 135-170 thousand rubles Source: Press Release Auction House "Kabinet»

Arnshtam AM Harlequin and Death. 1915 Watercolour. 24 x 29 Kabinet. 18.06.2013. Lot 32 Estimate: 90-120 thousand Source: press release of the auction house "Kabinet»

Among the organizers of the auction of art findings point to two of the Alexander Martynovich Arnshtama , the exhibitor Exhibition "The World of Art" in the years 1915-1917. The pre-revolutionary work of this illustrator and painter, one of the first professional Russian artists of cinema, virtually unknown. Arnshtama erotic themes often overlap with the work of his contemporary subjects Konstantin Somov Konstantin .

Family Album Sofia Kovalevskaya . End of XIX - early XX century. 38.5 x 21.1. 16 sheets 43 photos (from 6.5 to 10.5 x 19 x 29). Kabinet. 19.06.2013. Lot 233 Estimate: 150-190 thousand rubles Source: press release of the auction house "Kabinet»

The auction «Old and rare books, maps, prints» June 19 will be only presented 530 lots. Among the most interesting - a family album of Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), consisting of 16 pages with 43 pictures of the first female professor of mathematics. The album contains photos of different periods of life Kovalevskaya - baby pictures nee Sophia Corwin Krukovskaya; pictures of a later period, when the 18-year-old Sophia is married sham marriage for young scientists Kovalevsky, photographs the Paris Commune and the period of teaching at the University of Stockholm .

Another "topom" trading book will only lifetime publication comedy "Woe from Wit" by Alexander Griboyedov (estimate 420-500 thousand rubles). As you know, all this work in the writer's life was not published because it was forbidden "to be published and staged." A small excerpt was published Thaddeus Bulgarin in the literary and theatrical anthology "Russian Thalia».

Again for auction house "Kabinet" exhibited masterpieces of Russian avant-garde. This time it is the second, enlarged, edition of the poem "The Game in Hell" (1914) Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov with lithographs (estimate 360-500 thousand rubles). At the previous auction, in April 2013, First edition of this book has been achieved world record prices - 3,300,000 rubles. The main difference between the first and second editions of drawings is to blame. Cover and put up three figures in the June edition of trades executed , the other drawings - Olga Rozanova.

KAMENSKY B. Tango with cows. Reinforced concrete poem. M., ed D. Burliuk, Printing M. Yakovlev, 1914 Format: 20 x 20. 36] s. 3 liters. ill., cover sheet is not provided. Figures B and D. Burliuk Burliuk Kabinet. 18.06.2013. Lot 332 Estimate: 150-190 thousand rubles Source: press release of the auction house "Kabinet»

Finally, the attention of collectors will be presented to one of the most beautiful and unusual books of Russian avant-garde - pentahedron 1914 "Tango with Cows. Reinforced concrete poem "Vasily Kamensky with drawings brothers and David Burliuk (estimate 530-800 thousand rubles). Square on the format of the book, the right edge is cut on the diagonal, the author called the "pentagonal book." The book is printed on the reverse side of brightly colored wallpaper, in protest against the Futurists luxury editions of "bourgeois," "World of Art." Texture wallpaper gave an additional effect: drawing shine through from the back side is printed on the text, and is in conflict with the design of the text. It is the second most important in the history of the printed edition of Russian Futurism (the first - "Game in Hell") and a very large bibliographic rarity.

on second-hand auction house "Kabinet" will feature rare letters and books autographed by the main representatives of the Romanov dynasty - from the Emperor Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Nicholas II to the Grand Dukes, including pochtogrammu last recognized head of the Russian Imperial House, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitch. There is also a charter signed by Napoleon Bonaparte times consulate.

for auction famous Russian literary magazine of the XIX century "Notes of the Fatherland" (1849), which at the same time you can see the very first publication of the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Netochka Nezvanova," and the first edition in Russian of the famous novel by Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre».

way, first editions at these auctions will be plenty. Co-owners of the house "Kabinet" Xenia Tsann-kai-si and Konstantin Zhouromsky say: « We bibliophiles there is a special area of ​​collecting. This is the so-called "first editions." It should be emphasized that in the current auction bids will be presented to three lifetime Pushkin, Mayakovsky 13 publications (and all of them are known 98). Parsnips, white, twisted, Yesenin, Hippius, Bruce (autographed). There is even the very first lifetime edition of the first book Russian satirical poet and diplomat Antioch Cantemir and ».

hammer auction « Orders, medals, insignia of the Russian Empire " June 18 will become badges of Russian Railways, as well as event counters on industry topics and thematic exhibitions - in fact in the catalog shows a slice of the history of the Russian Empire in the signs. And the best part - it is also a "history in the people", because the organizers are often able to find the names and photos of the awardees. Co-owners of the auction house Xenia Tsann-kai-si and Konstantin Zhouromsky believe that kulturtregerstvo - one of the most important tasks of the auction house "Kabinet". « We try in our auctions, all categories - and in subjects of the Russian history and art, and used books, - the maximum accompany catalog information about each lot Art criticism and historical references. About the objects themselves, themes gathering, the owners, provenance. As a result, the story comes to life in the true story ».

Source : Press Release Auction House" Kabinet »