Up for auction includes over 300 lots totaling about 25 million rubles. The price of the most expensive of the lot — 1 800 000 rubles, the cheapest — 1500 rubles. The auction will open printmaking in the mid XVIII century, and the last of the lot dates back to 2006

on the last day of winter auction house "KABINET" will hold an auction of paintings, graphics and decorative-прикладного art.

Online-каталог auction.

By the early nineteenth century is a rare full-scale sheet E. M. Korneev, performed them during the famous expedition made under the leadership of General Sprengtporten for the study of southern borders of Russia. "Kind of a Tatar village Uskut" mentioned by the author of the book "E. M. Korneyev. From the history of Russian graphic art of the 19th century" (M., 1987) N. N. Goncharova among the paintings, whose whereabouts were unknown.

• REPIN Ilya Efimovich (1844-1930) Portrait of John Tarnowski. 1880
  graphite pencil on Paper. 32,6 × 24,2
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One of the top-лотов auction — "Portrait of John Tarnowski" I. E. Repin. The portrait depicts Vasily Tarnowski, the eldest son of a famous collector and patron of art Vasyl Tarnovsky-младшего in their estate Kachanivka near Chernigov. In 1880 Ilya Efimovich stayed there while working on the painting "the Cossacks writing letter to Turkish Sultan". The richest collection of Ukrainian antiquities Tarnovsky was the artist for the creation of "Cossacks". In addition to sketching items from the collection, Repin created a gallery of paintings and graphic portraits of the inhabitants of the manor. Shown in figure Bob Tarnowski ("vasiuk," as he was called home) later became an Opera singer and performed under the pseudonym of Snowballs.

Another interesting lot relevant to I. E. Repin, — album of his students from the Studio of Princess M. Tenisheva, presented to A. V. Prakhov. March 26, 1898, Professor A. V. Prakhov finished reading another series of popular lectures on art history. In the end, "the audience covered the final words of his teacher, friendly and lengthy applause. When the applause died down, students of the Academy presented to Professor Prakhov luxurious album of his sketches and read him a very heartfelt dedication" (the Academy of fine arts / St. Petersburg paper. 1898. No. 84. P. 3). The album contains paintings and graphic sketches of Y. I. Repin, K. A. Vasileva, E. E. Lessner, J. A. Chuhrova, L. P., Albrecht, A. V. Sapozhnikov, A. A. lyubyts'ke, G. G. Karpunina, I. M. Trapeznikova, A. N. Tretyakov, E. A. graves and others.

A. Golovin — artist, whose works are not so often met at auctions. "Cabinet" is up for auction large "Male portrait in costume of the Renaissance". Not only the look of the character stylized Renaissance portraits, but also the style of the work evokes associations with works of Italian masters of the XV–XVI centuries.

• GOLOVIN, Alexander Yakovlevich (1863-1930) portrait of a man in the costume of the Renaissance. The first quarter of the twentieth century
  Paper on cardboard, graphite pencil, watercolor, gouache. 55 × 32,5
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• Benois, Alexander Nikolayevich (1870-1960) the interior of the Church Santa-Мария del Rosario. 1935
  Paper, pencil, watercolor, whitewash. 25,8 x 20
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Another outstanding master of the Silver age and the companion of A. Y. Golovin in the "World of art", A. N. Benoit presented on the auction superb watercolour with a view of the Venetian Church Santa Maria del Rosario. Venice — favorite city of artistwhich he visited several times starting in 1894. Each such trip A. N. Benoit brought workshops watercolor kinds of different places of this marvelous city.

Section decorative-прикладного art at auction is decorated with rare objects, created in 1930-х years at the State porcelain factory: this is the sculpture "the fortune Teller" by N. J. Danko and a few items from the set "Leningrad 1935-го of the year" painted by the equally well-known wizard V. P. Frese.

, the auction exhibited two works of Lado Gudiashvili: the picturesque "Walking poets" who participated in the artist's exhibition in 1958, organized in the Exhibition hall of the Union of Soviet artists, and graphic illustration to the tale "the Fall."

artists of the Russian Diaspora presented at the auction of the prominent names —, such as "magic realist" Serge charchoune "Composition on the theme of the concert, for harpsichord. Variation No. 14". The last twenty years of the life and work of the main themes of charchoune was music and water. According to him, "the music flowing from left to right like reading a book or how the river flows, when you look at it from the right Bank".

One of the top-лотов section of works by artists-нонконформистов — "still life with feather" D. M. Krasnopevtseva. The main genre of the artist — close to surrealism "metaphysical still life" with simple, often broken pottery, dried plants and shells.

pre-Auction exhibition is open until February 27, except Sunday and Monday, in the office of the Auction house "Empire": Moscow, Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2.

the Auction will be held February 28 ibid. Start of trading in 19:00.

Tel: 7 495-792-48-92; 7 985-969-77-45; e-mail: info@litfund.ru.

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