CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN ART AUCTION Monday, 25 November 2019, 14:30IMPORTANT RUSSIAN ART AUCTION Wednesday, 27 November, 2019, 10:30Asia House, 63 New Cavendish St, London W1G 7LP
MacDougall’s has announced exciting auctions for London’s Russian Week. Russian contemporary art will be featured on November 25th and while classic Russian art will be auctioned on November 27th.
Masters of the Russian avant-garde will be represented by several leading names. The two-metre canvas, L’Espagnole by Natalia Goncharova (estimate £800,000–1,200,000) belongs to the series that can without exaggeration be called the symbol of the artist’s oeuvre. The Spanish theme became the most significant one in the work of Goncharova during the 1910-1930s. The best features of her talent are combined, including the tendency to monumentality and sophisticated decoration.
The group of seven graphic works by the master of the Russian avant-garde, Ivan Kliun, originating from the collection of the granddaughter of the artist Svetlana Kliunkova-Soloveichik and published in the catalogue raisonné prepared by her, is set to become an absolute sensation of the “Russian week”. The rare appearance at auction of several works at once, covering the two main decades of the artist’s career from the 1910s to the 1930s, and having impeccable provenance, is an event of extraordinary significance.
A masterpiece by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Bathing Boys (estimate £500,000–1,000,000), will undoubtedly attract attention. This painting is an extremely characteristic and recognisable example of the artist’s work from the late 1910s – early 1920s. Created in September 1921 in Samarkand, during the artist’s journey through Central Asia, it clearly reflects his development away from the abstract spaces of earlier years towards a more metaphysical world of “planetary reality” full of colour and light.
A specialized auction on November 25 will offer more than 120 lots of contemporary and
Pavel Pepperstein’s “Empty Icons” Series will occupy an important place within the auction (estimate £70,000–90,000). In this series, some meditative searches of the artist are manifested as part of his work as a member of the group of artists known as “Inspection Medical Hermeneutics”, of which he was the founder.
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