On 14 and 15 September 2017 auction house "Antiquarium" conducts the first autumn auctions of books, decorative-прикладного and modern art.

One of 13 copies of "Cantata" and other rarities

14 September "Antiquarium" will auction "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Rare books, autographs, photographs and postcards from St. Petersburg in the "Antiquarium"", which will be presented books, autographs, photographs, postcards and decorative-прикладного art collected in Saint-Петербурге.

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Among the rare books — edition of Peter's time "Book sistima or state Mohammedans religion" (1722); the first theoretical work on rail transport in Russia — "About Railways" (1835); copy of the "Fables" ia Krylov (1843) with an invitation to the funeral of the great Russian fabulist — such instances are very rare, as were sent by the executor Krylov, General-майором Ya. I. Rostovtsev, only invited to the funeral; destroyed the edition of the scientific work of V. I. Lenin, "Materials for the characterization of our economic development" (1895).

In the section books of the first quarter of the XX century, stands out the publication of the poem "Cantata" A. A. Sidorov, released in an edition of 13 copies, and manuscript preparation materials to this edition, including the layout of the book itself. It should be noted that, despite the bibliophilic focus of the famous libraries of Lesmana and Rozanov, neither the one nor the other was not this book in a personal collection.

Among the documentary materials of the auction a unique archive art exhibition "15 years the red army", consisting of biographies, autographs, and photos of artists and sculptors — exhibitors, verbatim records of the preparatory meetings, reproductions of paintings, clippings from Newspapers, drawings, prints, magazines and Newspapers, dedicated to the exhibition, posters, invitation cards etc.

Only in the "literary Fund", the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov gallery...

15 September "Russian enamel" will hold the fourth auction of contemporary art — "Modern art: painting, drawing, photography, objects, sculpture." In the collection of the auction includes 100 lots, totaling more than 9 000 000 rubles. Price range of works — from 6 000 rubles to 500 000 rubles.

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the auction will feature the works of not just the Museum, but located directly in museums: for example, "Portrait of Pinocchio in the costume of the Renaissance" 2003 Igor Makarevich (lot 27) — is one of a series presented including the State Tretyakov gallery, and the first of the five stereo Vario Lydia Vitkovskaya "Creatures of love" 2016 is in the State Russian Museum (lot 92, edition 5/5).

a Number of authors have created their works specifically for the "literary Fund", in particular Vladimir Dubossarsky (lot 31), Konstantin Zvezdochetov (lot 1), Simon Agroskin and Katherine Sysoeva (lot 50), Maria Arendt (lot 96), Arina Grantsev (lot 64), Ivan Filimonov (lots 94 and 95).

Those who are just started to form their collections, organizers urge you to pay attention to the work of young artists who have already gained recognition among professionals: Egor Zaika a, Maxim Kholodilin, Eugene Pustarnakova, Dmitry Gorbunov, Maxim Eagle, Svetlana Grishin and Roman Sazonov.

the pre-Auction exhibition opened in the office of the Auction house "Antiquarium" (Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2) to 13 September("Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow") and 14 September ("Modern art: painting, drawing, photography, objects, sculpture"), from 11 to 20 hours, weekends — Sunday and Monday.

Auctions will be held there. Auction start at 19:00

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