"Theater, music, ballet. Children's books. Unofficial art" March 3
ARTinvestment.RU   02 марта 2018

Tomorrow in Hamburg (Germany) auction house "Artmaksimum" will hold their first auction. Auction starts at 15:00

auction house "Artmaksimum", recently opened its bright and spacious office in the centre of Hamburg, will hold its first auction on March 3. Auction starts at 15:00.

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In the collection of the auction includes editions dedicated to ballet and theatre, autographs of prominent representatives of the Russian and Soviet culture, manuscripts and photographs of antique books and objects related to the activities and cultural practices of the Soviet underground.

Triumphal March of Russian ballet began in the first years of the XX century, when the legendary impresario Sergei Diaghilev became to acquaint Europe with the latest achievements of modern Russian culture. Truly a turning point was the "Russian season" in 1909. On the stage of the Paris théâtre du châtelet with great success was the premiere of the five ballets — "Armida's Pavilion", "Polovtsian dances", "PIR", "Sylphs" ("Les Sylphides") and "Cleopatra." "the Russian dancers may not realize the mystical nature of their dancing. But we felt it, therefore, their productions were a revelation for us", — enthusiastically wrote one of the leading French Newspapers. Dancers Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky and choreographer Mikhail Fokin became real world stars. In the collection of the auction includes a programme and leaflets of the "Russian seasons" by Sergei Diaghilev, a programme of performances of Anna Pavlova in London's "Palace" rooms of the famous French magazine "Comoedia illustré" publications of the Russian ballet and also the first edition of the theoretical works of leading Russian choreographers and connoisseurs of the ballet — "Book singing" Akim Volynsky, "the way of the choreographer" by Fyodor Lopukhov, "Modern dance" Alexei Sidorov, "a Modern ballet," Valerian Svetlov (one of the best illustrated books about the ballet, the immediate which was attended by Leon Bakst), "Fundamentals of classical dance" Agrippina Vaganova with her autograph — finally, "a Treatise on choreography" of Serge Lifar, personally signed by the famous artist.

the Taganka Theatre, the artistic Director of which was the famous Yuri Lyubimov, was one of the mouthpieces of the "thaw" and freedom Outpost for the Soviet creative intelligentsia in the subsequent epoch of Brezhnev's stagnation. It is in the performances of the Taganka played their starring Vladimir Vysotsky, Alla Demidova, Valery Zolotukhin, and many others. In the auction catalog includes programs the most important productions of the iconic theatre.

a Number of subjects connected with world famous composers. Absolute top-лотами auction will be a picture of Dmitry Shostakovich, with its dedicatory inscription, handwritten letter of Nikolai Rimsky-Корсакова, as well as books with inscripti Alexander Glazunov, Sergey Taneyev and Eduard Napravnik.

"Heavenly babies showed themselves" Elena Guro (1913) — is one of the most famous books of the early period of Russian avant-garde. Unfortunately, untimely death prevented Guro fully reveal their many talents. To become famous and become a real "icon" of the Russian and world avant-garde art was destined Natalia Goncharova, whose lithographs (illustrations to the works of Alexei Kruchenykh) deserveattention.

At the turn of 1920-30-х children's book publishing in the USSR has experienced a real boom. Many of those released in the years of the books are true masterpieces of printing, the product of the joint creative work of writers and artists. With quite impressive drawings to have survived not so many such publications, particularly in the collector's safekeeping. In the auction catalog: "Fire" by Samuil Marshak and illustrated by Vladimir Konashevich, "Master-ломастер" by the same author with illustrations by Alexei Pakhomov, "the Shepherd and the cuckoo" Vitaly Bianki with illustrations of Faith Ivanova, finally, the rare "red army Parade" with wonderful paintings by Alexander Deineka.

Several items in the auction catalog associated with Joseph Brodsky. Samizdat poetry collection "the Stop in desert", printed on a typewriter in the early 1960-х years, is markedly different from the editions published subsequently in the United States. Together with them, exhibited a number of photographs of Joseph Brodsky — from time Leningrad youth and the Northern link to the days of the awarding of the Nobel prize in Stockholm and Selected poems — collection of Brodsky in English with an inscription by the author.

the Auction offers portraits of Sergei Dovlatov, a collection of short stories "the View" with his autograph and letters of the writer, of which particularly interesting are his two handwritten messages of the Soviet period, dated 1975.

To the top-лотам auction is the autograph of the poem "Calvary" Alexander Galich (1973).

Next, this section presents one of the first in the USSR of representatives of conceptual art, poet and painter Herman Khudyakov. Among them are a rare example of the so-called "Karaweik" — is graphically designed poems — with the author's autograph. His name appears among the artists of the Russian samizdat art, along with Komar and Melamid delivered, Vahrich Bahchanyanom, Mikhail Chernyshev in the exhibition catalogue Transplantation of Russian spirit, issued in the amount of 125 copies.

is a veritable encyclopedia of the third wave of Russian emigration — photos til Maria Samarin from the series "Russian Paris", executed in a unique author's technique. Portraits of Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir kotljarova Tolstoy, Natalia Medvedeva, the pictures depicting the funeral of the artist Alexander Rabin, and filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. Some of the photos posted in the album "Leningrad fotohantering" (published by the Museum "the State Hermitage").

In Paris many years did the poet and artist Vladimir Kotlyarov Fat. He was one of the pioneers of Russian mail-арта turned into art objects banknotes, transformed Amateur photography in artist's books. The auction offers an impressive collection of art-работ Tolstoy.

noteworthy items associated with the names of Anna Tarshis (Rea Nikonova) and Sergey Sigea, the last years of his life working in Germany and their colleagues in literary-художественной group "Transparity" Boris Constrictor and Nicholas Axelrod (A. Nick): graphics andsamizdat poetry Ry Nikonova, several issues of the journal "Transponans", including a unique copy of the latest edition autographed by the authors, and directories email-арта, published by Sergey Sigeum.

the period of the stay in Germany are graphic diptychs of the St. Petersburg artist Valery Mishin. One of them — "Epitaph" — created during a stay in Dresden and dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Second world war.

Reflections on the works of Heinrich von Kleist book devoted to artist Maxim Kantor, who is now living and working in Germany, created by the tragedy of the great German romantic of the "Battle of Arminius". Interesting it more lithography with inscriptions, "Sir Isaiah Berlin visiting Anna Akhmatova" and "portrait".

the Leningrad artistic underground appears in painting and graphics "Mitkov". They created a special world not only artistic, but also interpersonal communication with their ironic rules of conduct. This different works of Vladimir shinkareva, Vasily Golubev, Olga Florensky, Alexander Florensky and Vladimir Yashke.

Erotic line of the Leningrad art reflected the pictures of Sergei Svetlakov and author's photo gallery Anatoly Belkin "among their Own".

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Source: press-релиз Auction house "Artmaksimum"