Auction "Russian and Soviet art" dedicated to the art of Russian artists of XIX–XX centuries, as well as works by Western European masters connected thematically with Russia, with its history and culture

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the Closing is scheduled for November 24, 2017 at 21:00 GMT.

At the auction are the collection of 130 works of painting, drawing and printmaking — of different styles and genres, it does contain samples of academic, classical avant-garde schools and directions, as well as works by artists of the second half of the twentieth century, including masters of the nonconformist movement.

under printed graphics collected reprints of woodcuts, etchings and lithographs by the great masters (Chagall, Zadkine, Masyutin, Tselkov). Particularly interesting etching of Mikhail Kurilko "the Winner and the life" in 1913.

In graphic organizers draw attention to two works of the veteran of the Soviet cartoons of Boris Efimov. One of them — a caricature of the writer Boris Pasternak in 1954, before the award of that Nobel prize, the other subjected to ridicule the work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1974). Block book covers is the art of Eugene Gannushkina, one of the masters of book design, the largest Soviet type designer.

the Artist Meer Axelrod in 1937 he created a series of works in the life of Soviet Jews. Part of the plates in this series listed in the directory.

Four sheets of the Leningrad graphics Richard Vasmi illustrate the way other art 1960-х in the Northern capital, with a harsh and yet sophisticated poetics.

the creation of Moscow of the sixties represent, in particular, the works of Ilya Kabakov, Vladimir Nemukhin, Boris Sveshnikov, Alexander Kharitonov, Oleg Tselkov, Vladimir Yakovlev. Rare original samples of book design Oleg Vasiliev 1960-х complement a selection of other art.

Separate strings are the collection of works of different years Boris Fedorovich Rybchenkov (1899-1994), a famous Soviet painter and graphic artist, member of the famous group "13" (late 1920-х). Collection reflecting different periods of his creativity, is in the United States for about 30 years.

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