Russian auction at Sotheby's on 29 November set a new record auction prices for works by Alexander Rodchenko: painting "Design No. 95" was sold for £3.65 million ($4.5 million)

Design No. 95 (1919) by Alexander Rodchenko before the start of the "Russian week" in London (which, by the way, continues today and tomorrow auction Bonhams and MacDougalls) was considered the most significant her a lot. This level of works by Alexander Rodchenko at auction was not. Therefore, the record was quite expected.

the Picturesque "Design No. 95" refers to the most valuable period of creativity Rodchenko-художника. In 1919 he produced a series of paintings "Leninism", which was based on the idea of the line as an independent pictorial form, the Foundation of any composition scheme. The work cycle he called "Constructions" and gave them numbers. Fourteen paintings of the cycle (including the "Design No. 95") was presented at the XIX Exhibition VZVB of the Department of fine arts of Narkompros in 1920. "Design No. 95," published in the exhibition catalogue. In addition, there are two pictures of this work on the wall of the workshop of Rodchenko made in 1920 and 1924 Provenance works flawless. To the Russian bid was put out from a European private collection in which "Design No. 95" is stored since 1996. In 2009, "the Design of number 95" was one of the main exhibits at the MOMA "Rodchenko and Popova: defining constructivism".

Until yesterday, the most expensive work of Rodchenko was considered a minor figure in 1917, sold last year for $646 000. Now record the bracket has risen to $4.5 million And who knows how many still to wait for the next record — at least as much as time will pass until the public auction of Rodchenko's work of a comparable level.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

: sothebys.com, artinvestment.ru