For the first time in Russia exhibited a specially assembled collection of "samizdat" — illegal print; the catalog includes rare editions of: non-censured from the first edition on the hectograph "the Kreutzer Sonata" by L. Tolstoy to underground literature 1960-80-х years

for the First time in Russia, "Empire" offers for auction a specially gathered collection of "samizdat" — illegal print; the catalog includes rare editions of: non-censured from the first edition on the hectograph "the Kreutzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy to an underground literature 1960-80-х.

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for the First time in its practice auction "Antiquarium" is a collection of paintings and graphics "Unofficial art", including the works of the artistic underground Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin, Ernst Neizvestny, Mikhail Shemyakin, Dmitry Plavinsky, Lev Kropivnitsky, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Pyatnitsky, Igor Voroshilov and follower of the traditions of the avant-garde Varvara Bubnova, Nikolay Lozovoy.

the catalog includes more than 50 rare autographs of the cultural figures of the twentieth century, including the writers Leonid Andreev, Nikolai Klyuev and Nikolai Aseev, Ilya Ilf, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Konstantin Paustovsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Joseph Brodsky and Alexei Khvostenko, artists Boris Grigoriev and Edward Steinberg, composer Dmitri Shostakovich, conductor Evgeny Svetlanov and directed by Boris Pokrovsky.

the open Directory section of the "St. Petersburg collection" with a letter by Leonid Andreyev on the faces reasonable in writing, inscriptum Sergei Rafalovicz addressed to Nicholas Evreinova and dedication of Joseph Brodsky, addressed to Alexander Kushner. The same section presents the autographs of Mikhail Zoshchenko and Nikolai Radlov, in their joint book "30 fun projects", drafts of poems and songs by Alexei Khvostenko, the figure of Joseph Brodsky, caricatures and watercolors by well-known book Illustrator Michael Belomorskogo from the archive of the artist's family. Image of Saint-Petersburg — Petrograd — of Leningrad and its inhabitants occurs in rare species photographs of the early twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova, artists Vladimir Lebedev, Nikolay Osina, Valentina Khodasevich and the portraits of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Isaac Schwartz, Andrei Bitov.

Basic literature-художественные current first quarter of the twentieth century — futurism, imaginism, constructivism — represented in the collection of books by Alexei Kruchenykh, Ilya Selvinsky, Anatoly Mariengof and Benedict Livshits, which is addressed to the inscription of Nicholas Aseeva on the book "Thunder" (1926). Interesting detailed inscription of Nikolai Klyuev on the pages of "House and field", addressed to a friend, critic and historian of literature Pavel Medvedev.

for the First time in Russia for auction poster and catalog, "First exhibition of Soviet architecture" (1927) the constructivist theorist Alexei Ghana from the archive of architect Mikhail Sinyavsky. From the same of rare documents, photographs related to the activities of Sinyavsky and books autographed by Ilya Ilf, Konstantin Paustovsky and Ruvim Fraerman.

"Samizdat". Almost a year was formed the collection of unique manuscripts, autographs and vanishingly small-circulation publications of representatives of unofficial culture, such as Yevgeny rein, Dmitry Prigov, Tatiana Shcherbina, Lev Rubinshtein, Arkady Dragomoschenko, Arkady Bartov; periodicals (magazines "the Watch", "Obvodny channel", "Thirty seven", etc.); books "tamizdat", published by artists Vitaly Statsinsky, Nicholas Dronnikov, Julia Belomlinsky, and photos of representatives of unofficial culture. Portraits of artists Edward Steinberg, Vladimir Yakovlev, created in 1970-х, Anatoly Brusilovsky, preceded their own works in closing the catalog section.

the Category of "Unofficial art: paintings and drawings from private collections" opens works 1960-х, the famous heiress of the traditions of Russian avant-garde Varvara Bubnova. The sad "Portrait in brown tones", a poignant pastel "Conversation", a melancholy watercolor "Winter by the sea" — such variations of States born by the hand of a true master.

To the top-лотам include two works by Edward Steinberg with inscriptions: "flower Bouquet" (1970) — early, more figurative, unexpectedly gentle, but quite recognizable, and later classical "Composition" (1983). Noteworthy graphics of the founder of Russian conceptualist poet and artist Dmitry Prigov from the collection of the poet Tatyana Sherbina to which and facing the inscription of the author on "the Portrait of Victor Erofeev".

the Art underground 1960-70-х, represented by the names of Mikhail Shemyakin, Yuriy Titov, Dmitry Plavinsky, Lev Kropivnitsky, Ernst Neizvestny, Vladimir Yakovlev, Igor Voroshilov, Kurochkin Edward, as well as rare works by Vladimir Pyatnitskiy.

Pre-auction exhibition is open daily until December 19, from 12 to 20 hours to the address: Moscow, Savvinskaya embankment, 23, p. 1 (the auction house "Antiquarium" in the building "Art center on Savvinskaya").

the Auction will take place on 19 December. In the beginning19:00.

Tel: 7 (495) 374-50-90; 7 (499) 678-22-74, info@anticvarium.ru.

Source: press-релиз auction house "three centuries"