Russian art postcard 9-м online-аукционе "Empire"
ARTinvestment.RU   31 мая 2017

The closing will take place on Tuesday 6 June, at 18:00

In catalog "Postcards first half of the twentieth century," the organizers gathered lots 57.

Online-каталог auction.

a Significant portion of the collection is the open letter, released "the Community of St. Eugenia". This publishing house, works closely with the artists "World of art", quickly drew the attention of the demanding public. It is engaged in distribution of cards with reproductions of works of modern Russian artists, many of whom only had to go the way of fame in the artistic circles of the capital to national recognition. Due to the huge circulation and the public domain in an open letter acted as an intermediary in introducing the wider population to the latest art movements and their key representatives. In addition to thematic novelty, postcards "the Community of St. Eugenia" characterized by high printing quality and elaborate design. The largest newspaper "Morning of Russia" rightly pointed out in 1912 that the publisher "...made a revolution in the history of the Russian open letter;, it managed to raise it to the height requirements of the most subtle connoisseur of art, to make it a public library on the history of art", as one contemporary as-то noticed that these "cards" is just one drawback: "they wish to send in the mail".

Presented at online-аукционе cards "of the Community of St. Eugenia" reproduce as widely known and familiar only to specialists the work of artists of the Association "World of art". Open the catalog of postcards with reproductions of works by Ivan Bilibin. Some of them dedicated to the heroes of Russian fairy tales — "bird of Paradise Sirin", "dragon", "Sea King," etc. Fairy-tale motifs blended with Bilibino Russian North, in which the refinement of art Nouveau is intertwined with mysticism "of the edge of the endless forests, large and quiet rivers." It seems that only on the full moon bathed the shore of Kemi or beside what-нибудь abandoned rural Church in Pudozhsky district are those "unknown tracks" traces "of unseen beasts". And the cycle Bilibin was the result of the expedition artist of Vologda, Olonets and Arkhangelsk provinces, has taken on the task of the ethnographic Department of the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III. You should pay attention to the cards of Alexander Benois, one of the fathers-основателей "World of art" and the tacit art-директора "the Community of St. Eugenia", — "Infantry", "Summer garden under Peter the Great" and "Divorce in front of the Winter Palace during the reign of Paul I". Work Benoit, addressed to St. Petersburg past, complements the "Old winter Palace in the middle. XVIII century" Lancer. Remarkable four cards Mstislav Dobuzhinsky — "Poles", "Rusin", "Seller of fabrics. Types of St. Petersburg" and "Cossack in 1814". Complete thematic series world of art postcards reproducing paintings by Konstantin Somov, Mary yakunchikovoy and Nicholas Roerich.

the Second part of the catalogue formed postcards by Elizaveta BEM, artist, enjoyed great popularity at the turn of the century, warmly accepted, and in a higher capital world, and the deaf bear the corners of the country. Boehm was one of the first in Russia to evaluate the potential and inclusiveness of a new speciesmass production, and from the end of XIX century have created several hundred original postcards in the "Russian style", illustrating Proverbs and sayings that have become popular in the West. It was successfully participated in international exhibitions in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Milan, Chicago, the results of which received prizes and medals. In the collection procatechesis of the auction "KABINET" are 29 postcards Boehm, published by S. I. lapinin in Paris in the early XX century.

the Catalogue is complemented by two open letters from the watercolors of Grand Duchess Olga, released Charitable society her name, the revolutionary postcard 1917 "Erect the building of a free Russia" Georgy Pashkov and two sets of cards dedicated to the music and the great Patriotic war.

Pre-exhibition opened at the address: Sadovaya str-Кудринская, 25, to June 5, from 12:00 to 20:00 (except Sundays).

the auction house and the gallery "three centuries" (in the building of "the Antique centre on the Garden"). Phone for reservation: 7(495) 374-5090. E-mail: [email protected].

Source: press-релиз Auction houses and galleries "KABINET"