Just two days — on 24 and 25 may 2016 — in Zilart Hall (Moscow, street Avtozavodskaya, 22) auction house Sotheby's will show top-лоты future London auction of contemporary art. Those that will be held on June 28, 2016.

Why bring to Moscow — said Irina Stepanova, the new Director of Sotheby's in Russia and the CIS: "Russian collectors — among the most active buyers at the auctions of Sotheby's in the world, especially at the auction of contemporary art, both in London and in new-Йорке".

auction Specialists lead the following descriptions of work that will show to Muscovites.

the Work of Andy Warhol inspired by the plot of the masterpiece of Giorgio De Chirico "Orestes and Pylades" and refers to the famous series "the Art of Art" in which Warhol is drawn to a number of the most famous paintings in art history. In this series Warhol's own interpretation of the picturesque and-новому interpreterpath works by such great masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Henri Matisse, Sandro Botticelli, and Pablo Picasso in a unique style of pop-арт. The exhibition on de Chirico in new-йоркском MOMA in 1982, inspired Warhol to create a number of paintings "based on Chirico". In this kind of act of artistic piracy Warhol as it recreates the original painting of de Chirico, but adds the expressive dynamics due to the heavy use of shades of red, blue and green.

On the canvas of a series of Concetto Spaziale is, Attese two paralleltimeline literally dissect bright-красный the background of the canvas, creating energetic, powerful, full of dramatic effect. Dramatically Fountain visibly declares and conceptual break with the five hundred year tradition of Western art. Abandoning the traditional perspective on the illusory plane, the artist cuts the canvas, thus creating a real three-dimensional space.

Calder's Work, from the mid-1950-х years, is one of the clearest examples of his innovative "mobile". Fascinating whimsical movements "mobility" creates a sense of the balance, of equilibrium and balance. "The mobiles of Calder — separate phenomenon in the context of world art history, marking the transition from the traditional static to motion.

Dark-синий pigment patented by the artist in 1957 as "International Klein Blue" embodies the artist's desire to create exceptional depth, literally a bottomless shade of blue. At the time this work came from Marie-Кристоф de Menil, the daughter of legendary collectors John and Dominique de Menil. After the premature death of the artist in 1962 they put a lot of effort for the promotion of the creative heritage of Yves Klein and, together with the well-known art historian Thomas Makaveli contributed to holding the first retrospective exhibition of the artist's works in the United States in 1982.

the word, SILARD (the place where the exhibition is held) — this is the under construction art-квартал, in which the streets are named for Russian artists — Kandinsky, Malevich, Rodchenko, and others.

Material prepared by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: press@Sotheby ndashрелиз's