The central event of the fall season on the national antiques market will be attended by over 250 galleries

From 22 to 30 October, more than 250 Russian galleries will participate in the XXXI Russian Antique Salon - the central event of the fall season on the local antiques market. Such wide representation demonstrates the stability of the market of the old art. While most other industries are in crisis, works of art invariably grow in value and serve as a reliable and promising investment areas.

In the Central zone at the Salon stands the most prominent Russian antique galleries will represented about 20 thematic exhibitions in them - paintings by old masters and artists of the Russian avant-garde, classical, national school, the art of Japan, the Russian glass, furniture, art deco period, and much more. Salon attractive traditional breadth of the proposal - as topics, and price range.

calibrated displays, variety and authenticity of the material selected with the assistance of the Expert Council to confirm the reputation of a Antique Salon significant event of the secular and artistic life of the capital.

Recently, the domestic market once again demonstrates the increased interest in the works of decorative art. In confirmation of this trend, Special Project XXXI Antique Salon will present empire. But unlike the previous popularity of "situational antiques," now attract the attention of no single work, and ensembles that represent the era or style as a whole.

Special Project XXXI Russian Antique Salon. "Empire. The style of the two emperors ». Curator Olga Strugova

all the luxury, grandeur and monumentality of the Empire at the exhibition will show works by renowned artists and craftsmen in the early decades of the XIX century. Emerged in France at the turn of the XVIII - XIX centuries as the apotheosis of classicism, the style was called to glorify Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor for life. Originally inspired by artists classicists aesthetics of the Roman Empire, and after Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, they began to borrow motifs from the archaic art of Egyptian civilization. With the ideological foundation of unconditional, Empire was in tune with the ideas of the Russian autocracy.

porcelain and bronze, furniture art and painting, presented at the exhibition, will leave a vivid sense of the objective world, which created the JL . David S. Persier, P. Fontaine, and their followers in Russia and France. Viewers will be able to meet with a collection of watches, including emerging from the workshop of leading French bronze PF Thomire. Among the porcelain vase can be seen with caryatids, performed on the project Pimenov, and sculpture, painted by the famous French battle-painter ZH.-F.-ZH. Svebahom , who worked at the Imperial Porcelain Factory. A collection of miniature paintings will present portraits of Alexander I and Empress Elizabeth, Napoleon, and Madame Recamier. Furnishings Russian Empire mansion of the first third of the nineteenth century demonstrate the uniqueness of this area of ​​arts and crafts.

As a preamble to an intriguing main exhibition will address a number of unique items of previous years. Thus, visitors will feel that the novelty, which brought artists into the art of classicism in the reign of Napoleon and Alexander I.

Thematic exhibition XXXI Russian Antique Salon

​​Masterpieces of Russian painting at the turn XIX - XX Centuries from private collections

Gallery "Master»

Works Korovin , B. Kustodiev , KV Lebedev , Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin , previously unavailable to the general public.

​​Russian glass. Collection of Boris and Galina Oistrakh

Gallery "Orthodox»

private collection of Russian glass end XVIII - the beginning of the twentieth century, 200 exhibits.

​​Classics of Russian painting

Gallery "Academy of Arts»

Ivan Aivazovsky , VP Vereshchagin , K. Makovsky , Ivan Shishkin , GI Siemiradzki , G. Sedov and others.

​​School of Paris (French Ecole de Paris)

Gallery "Elysium»

Marc Chagall , A. Lansky , Alexander Yakovlev , Marevna , A. Feder , C. Fehr , E. Ettingen , L. Survage .

collection of works by prominent Russian artists of the XIX - XX centuries: Yu Yu Clover's father and YY-son Clover

Gallery «Melart»

​​Russian Impressionism. II Godlevsky

Gallery of Vladimir Kaplunova

​​Restless contemplation. Paintings and drawings by Alexander D. Alexander Drevin (1889-1938)

Gallery "GOST»

​​Ilya Chashnik

Gallery James Battervika

The exhibition features six graphic works of Russian supremacist, a student Ilya Chashnik (1902-1929).

​​National Romanticism Helena Polenova

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collection of furniture and interior joinery Abramtsevo under the artistic direction of ED Polenova .

« Meet Russian style »

Gallery" Russian project »

Furniture and furnishings, created based on sketches by famous artists, from pseudo-Russian style to Russian modernism, from historicism to Russian fairy tale.

​​Golden Age. Picture of life in the "old masters" of the Northern Renaissance

Art Gallery "Modus Vivendi»

​​Masters and Masterpieces of Western European painting of XIX century.

Gallery "Academy of Arts»

Brilliant impressionist works of the followers of Cortez, Bertrand, Fisher.

Europe through the eyes of renowned landscape

Gallery "Classics of the genre»

Paintings acknowledged masters of Russia and Western Europe XIX - early XX century.

​​«Earth and the mountain»

Gallery "Vellum»

Works Mikhail Nesterov , Vladimir Makovsky , A. Konovalova , PA Svedomski and others as opposed to a series of graphic M. Cheremnykh , the "windows of Growth", linear compositions AY Bykhov , G. Klucis , erotic nude VV Lebedev .

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Private Collection «ART DECO EMPORIUM»

Collection porcelain, furniture, household "stuff" Art Deco period.

​​era of transatlantic liners Cabinet

Gallery Transatlantique

Interior Cabinet of the President of the legendary 1940s Compagnie générale transatlantique.

​​objects of decorative art deco era (1920-1940)

Gallery "Evroantikvar»

Cutlery sets and factory Christofle, created by renowned designer Luc Lanelem for first class passengers of the legendary transatlantic liner "Normandie" in 1935.

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Gallery "BERSOANTIK»

​​collection of masterpieces of Japanese art Meiji period (1868-1912)

Gallery of Japanese antiques «JAP PRO ART»

Fine vases and incense burners, inlaid panels and screens, and bronze jewelry, paintings and porcelain.

Framework

​​round table" Assessment of the art: current state of affairs. " On October 27, 17.00, CHA Press Room, 2nd Floor

discussion on the capitalization of works of art - a topic that has become particularly acute due to the increased role of antiques as an investment. < /p>

Organizers: Institute of art and antiques business, MKAAD, "EXPO-PARK EXHIBITION PROJECTS».

Parallel program

​​exhibition "The Soviet timetable of the funds of the International Confederation of Unions of Artists»

mezzanine floor CHA

Curators of the project: Margaret Charles, Catherine Grishina.

​​extensive collection of prints 1960-90s

Among the authors - Martiros Saryan , Vladimir Favorskii , Illarion Golitsyn, Boris Berzins, George Yakutovich, Eugene Sidorkin , Ilmar Thorne, Rasim Babayev , Tengiz Mirzashvili, Jonas Kuzminskis, Ilya Bogdesko, Rimtautas Gibavichyus, Nicholas Voronkov.

Press Conference October 22 at 14:00, press center of the CHA.

Vernissage: October 22, 16.00-20.00.

time: October 22-30, 12.00-20.00.

Source : CHA press release