Jubilee auction "Russian enamel"
ARTinvestment.RU   17 марта 2017

March 25 auction house "KABINET" will hold two sessions 50th anniversary-х auction, which will feature rare books, autographs, photographs, postcards, paintings and drawings. In the auction catalogue of over 400 lots for a total sum about 30 million roubles

For trading on world theatre day, the auction house "Russian enamel" gathered a rich collection of theatrical graphics. The attention of collectors presents sketches of scenery and costumes for the most prominent Russian and Soviet theater artists as well as portrait images of famous actors. The catalog includes lots 105, illustrating the development of scenography in the second half of the nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

Online-каталог session 1: "Painting, graphics and decorative-прикладное art".

The Work Of A. N. Benoit includes large-format backdrop for a Comedy of K. Goldoni "Servant of two masters", as well as costumes for the plays of A. Dumas-сына "the Lady with camellias" and Nosier F. and V. Binstock "the Idiot" by F. Dostoyevsky's novel. One of the most interesting lots of the auction — sketch of the warrior costume for the ballet Stravinsky's "the Firebird-птица", performed N. Goncharova for the production of Sergei Diaghilev.

the Main artist of the Bolshoi theatre of F. F. Fedorovsky presents a magnificent backdrop for the Opera N. Rimsky-Корсакова "the maid of Pskov", as well as a sketch of the grim fate of Pogner to the Opera of R. Wagner's "die Meistersinger von nürnberg".

One of the top-лотов auction — avant-garde costume design Musketeers an outstanding theatre artist A. V. Khvostenko-Хвостова. In the collection, the auction also presents theatrical graphics D. S. stelletsky, A. G. Tischler, A. N. Samokhvalov, A. V. Lentulov.

Two theatrical scenery and costume design presents the work of another master artist of the Bolshoi theatre, V. F. Ryndin. Great sketch for the Opera by M. P. Mussorgsky "Khovanshchina" performed by V. M. I fear nothing for the metro-оперы in new-Йорке, is a jewel of the auction.

Among the printed materials section on world theatre day, it is possible to allocate the rarest destroyed book translation N. M. Karamzin's "Julius Caesar. The Tragedy Of William Shakespeare" (1787), "The Theater-Goer. Pocket book for theater lovers" (1853), and a rare poster presentation in the Anichkov Palace "Husband to order", several programs and posters, decorated N. Goncharova and S. Chekhonin, the autograph of Boris Pasternak on the book of his translations of Shakespeare's "hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

Online-каталог session 2: "Part 1: Books on theatre and fine art, autographs, posters, photographs, documents, and programs. Part 2: Rare books, autographs, photographs and postcards".

In the second session of the auction is impressive is a huge selection of letters and decrees of the Russian rulers, including inscripti Empress Anna Ioannovna, Elizaveta Petrovna, Catherine the great, Paul I, Empress Maria Feodorovna, NicholasI and Nicholas II.

lots of Rare Museum-quality — is an Album project dress uniform from the collection of Prince Anatoly Demidov, the letter of Nikolai Lobachevsky, I. Sadovskogo album "Scenes from Russian folk life", originating from the collection of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich and renowned ballet figure of Serge Lifar, a series of original drawings-карикатур on figures of Russian culture of the famous cartoonist N. A. Stepanova, complete the "Inventory Moscow Armory" and more.

the Unique lot is an original drawing by A. N. Benoit for his famous "Alphabet in pictures", arising from the collection of the famous literary critic E. A. Gunst.

Pre-exhibition opened in the office of the auction house "Antiquarium" (Moscow, Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2) to 24 Mar (every day except Sunday and Monday, from 11 to 20 hours).

the Auction will be held on March 25 ibid. Start of trading in 19:00.

Phone 7 495-792-48-92; 7 985-969-77-45; e-mail: [email protected].

Catalog and online-аукционе through the system Bidspirit: litfund.bidspirit.com.

Source: press-релиз the auction house "Russian enamel"